wine-preloader defunct

[James Hawkins]

On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 20:01:48 -0800, Kenneth Porter
<shiva at 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?

-- 
James Hawkins