What do you mean by zambie process?
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Answer / guest
A zombie process or defunct process is a process that has
completed execution but still has an entry in the process
table, this entry being still needed to allow the process
that started the zombie process to read its exit status.
The term zombie process derives from the common definition
of zombieāan undead person. In the term's colorful
metaphor, the child process has died but has not yet been
reaped.
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Answer / veerendra
If a parent is not calling wait() even after the
termination of the child, The child process will become
zombie process. All Zombie processes are attached to Init
process.
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Answer / pradi
This is a scenario where child process terminates before
the parent process.
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Answer / subhani
zombie process means which doesnt have any parent process
we cant kill this process only kernal can take care of this
once the system rebooted all the zombie processers are
killed or cleard by kernal.
if the zombie processers are more than 15 we must reboot
the system.
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Answer / yogi
Zombie process is one type process.The process is completed but the process entry still appear in the process table,In that time the process create new process id's.The child process does not acknowledgement to parent process , That time the parent process creates new process id,every child process create new process,that time system performance will be degraded .
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