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I find a zombie process named Xsession in my Linux system,it's father process is GNOME.How does it happen and how to kill this process.

CasparQiu
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    "How does it happen" is fairly varied. We can't possibly speculate on your system - we don't know which Distribution you're using, how you're configured, or what packages you've installed. As far as killing it - do you have the PID? It's as simple as `kill -9 $PID`. You'll probably need to be root, so prepend a `sudo` or login as root - whatever your flavor supports. – FrankieTheKneeMan Aug 19 '13 at 13:51
  • @FrankieTheKneeMan A zombie is already dead, so killing it is pointless. If the process is a zombie, its parent has not waited for it. If GNOME is not waiting for its children properly, this is a bug in GNOME. – William Pursell Aug 19 '13 at 22:34

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Here... I've been using a modified version of this for a while.

http://www.mariusv.com/automatic-zombie-processes-killing-shell-script/

Cron it to run every x minutes.

EvilKittenLord
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