On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 20:01:48 -0800, Kenneth Porter shiva@sewingwitch.com wrote:
I've now got several instances of "[wine-preloader] <defunct>" in my ps listing from a game server that's died in some strange way. Anyone have experience in clearing these short of bouncing the whole box? They're holding onto a couple of TCP ports that I'd like to use. The ports are stuck in CLOSE_WAIT, because the processes are stuck in memory so the sockets can't close.
Does 'kill -9 processnum' not work?