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I got a two processes during the network drive failure.

1 D     0  1199     1  0  80   0 - 19101 wait_o pts/21   00:00:01 rsync
1 Z     0  1226  1199  0  80   0 -     0 exit   pts/21   00:00:00 rsync <defunct>

How to kill them?

thanks Arman

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Duplicate : serverfault.com/questions/250294/… – Raphink May 25 '11 at 14:19
Yes but it does not help to solve my problem... – Arman May 25 '11 at 14:20
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Rebooting doesn't get rid of the zombie process? Or you mean how you're running/killing the process in the first place is the problem? – Bart Silverstrim May 25 '11 at 14:26
@Arman: the post says the only way is rebooting, and so it is. Like @Bart says, it's hard to imagine that rebooting might not fix your problem, unless your problem is that this is a recurrent issue maybe? – Raphink May 25 '11 at 14:27
Thanks,Yes, you are right, I dont want to reboot the server, but if it is a only way to do, then I can try to reboot over the WE. – Arman May 25 '11 at 14:52
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Send a SIGCHILD signal to the parent process and if that doesn't work kill the parent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_process

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