How Do I Find Zombie Processes

Zombie processes can be found easily with the ps command. Within the ps output there is a STAT column which will show the processes current status, a zombie process will have Z as the status.

How do I find zombie processes in Windows?

  1. Download findzombiehandles_prebuilt package from here (or clone the github here)
  2. Unzip it and open an elevated Command Window at that location.
  3. Run FindZombieHandles.

How do I see orphan or zombie process?

An orphan process is a computer process whose parent process has finished or terminated, though it (child process) remains running itself. A zombie process or defunct process is a process that has completed execution but still has an entry in the process table as its parent process didn’t invoke an wait() system call.

Chloe Bennett

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