wine-preloader defunct

Bill Medland billmedland at mercuryspeed.com
Thu Dec 2 23:28:01 CST 2004


On December 2, 2004 08:15 pm, James Hawkins wrote:
> 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?

Probably not.
I regularly face them and the only way I know is to reboot

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