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when i run top or htop i see a zombie process with no identification besides a pid number and user root
how to i find out what starts this process
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Have you tried 'Tree' view, F5, in htop? This gives an ASCII art view of the running processes by parent-child relationship. Pressing F5 again will toggle the view back to normal.
That may give you some information. The 'ps' command may be used to find out more, possibly, but I'm too unfamiliar with 'ps' to give you much assurance this will work:
$ ps -u root -U root --format pid,euser,ruser,fname,comm,args
If I saw this on my machine, I would be strongly tempted to kill the process and see if anything bad happens. I'd at least reboot and see if the noname process reappears.
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ps -ef has the PPID column which is the id of the process' parent.
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thanks for the reply ill try this and see if it help the process does not use up any resources so i am not worried
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