how to kill a process that is "defunct"?

[Varsha Jaikumar]

>On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Arthur Bela <jozsi.avadkan at gmail.com>wrote:

> >I tried to:
> >
> >kill -9 3341
> >
> >but it's still there, and it's using 100% cpu :\
> >
> >I only tried to download a few linux iso's, so i can seed them back a
> >couple of times [about ~20 at a time :O ] but transmission just
> >freezez
> >
> >I tried to log out, and log in, when i log back, it's still there :O
> >only when i reboot my pc...only then it will dissapear..
> >
> >Is there a way to kill that process?
>

I think you can refer to
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/how-to-kill-zombie-process-592732/
.
Hope it helps.

>
> >Thank you :O
>



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Varsha Jaikumar
Computer Science & Engineering (4th year)
National Institute of Technology, Durgapur
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