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kill -9 programs but they still hang on

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Mar 15, 202616843 views
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Problem

I tried to kill all my background jobs submit earlier under KUbuntu by Although this command immediately gave the message like [1] Killed myjob1 [2] Killed myjob2 I can still see their processes hanging in the output of top and the CPU and memory usages are not changed in the output of uptime and f…

Error Output

kill -9 $(jobs -p)

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Fix for: kill -9 programs but they still hang on

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Your process is probably dead but it still show up in the process table entry because it is a "zombie process". When a child process terminated and completely disappeared (except its process table entry) and the parent wouldnt be able to fetch its t…

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