Zombie process using 100% CPU
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Problem
A zombie process, which should not be using any resources (RAM and CPU), is hogging up an entire core on my 8-core 64-bit Ubuntu 11.10 Desktop installation. This is the output of : ... and here is an excerpt from : This is how the zombie process came to existence: I opened a Java JAR called minecra…
Error Output
F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN TTY TIME CMD 0 Z 1000 10317 1 99 80 0 - 0 exit ? 19:27:15 java <defunct>
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Fix for: Zombie process using 100% CPU
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The process has already been reparented to , so it should be being reaped (otherwise, the solution would likely be to kill its parent). It appears to be stuck in , based on the field. It may actually be doing something (like creating a core dump) th…
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