Ever run a "top" command on a linux machine and notice a number of "zombie processes"?
Zombies are already dead processes that you really cant get rid of without a reboot.
Ususally they are harmless and take almost no resources.
To view what process ids are the zombies you can use this command from a command shell
ps aux | awk '{ print $8 " " $2 }' | grep -w Z
This will show the pid of the zombie processes.Labels: linux, scripts, tools, utils