• Linux
• PidProcessKill

Linux/PidProcessKill

• Find broken process, on vm having 3k <defunct> processes

  # Try to find the offending PID by checking /proc one by one (safer)
  for pid in /proc/[0-9]*; do
      pid=${pid#/proc/}
      timeout 1 cat /proc/$pid/cmdline >/dev/null 2>&1 || echo "Problematic PID: $pid"
  done | head -n 20