What Is a Zombie Process?

• 2019/09/07

Zombie processes

You know the ones—created accidentally, immune to sudo kill -9 PID, and forcing you to restart services. I wrote a Python script (containerized for convenience) that spawns them on purpose, handy for testing monitoring scripts.

Check for them with:

ps aux | grep defunct

Repository: https://github.com/hirotoyoshidome/zombie-docker