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How to kill zombie process in Solaris 9?

edited Aug 29, 2011 4:44AM in Oracle Solaris System Administration (MOSC) 1 commentAnswered ✓

Dear Team,

One zombie process has been found in our V890 server. 

root@vomssz1> ps -ef | grep [d]efunct
    root  4340  4144  0                   0:00 <defunct>
root@vomssz1> ptree 4144
4144  /export/home/oracle/crs/10.1.0/bin/crsd.bin
  4340  <defunct>
root@vomssz1> uname -a
SunOS vomssz1 5.9 Generic_118558-38 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V890

How to kill this zombie process? I've seen a solution in the document ID 1007095.1.

" Under solaris 9 or later. preap command may be used to reap zombie process".

1. How to use preap command to kill zombie process? 
2. What are the things to be considered while executing preap command?
3. Will it impact the performance of the system?

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