Re: [LI] runaway process

["Suresh Ramasubramanian" <Suresh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

> Is a runaway process the same as Zombie process? If so, in linux is
> there any way out to find such processes and kill them
> manually/automatically?

Runaway Process - One which goes out of control - into an infinite 
loop say / forking unlimited child processes (and hogs system 
resources)

Zombie - One which executes at < a snail's speed and locks up yr 
system that way

Both will die a horrible death when you use kill -9




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