wine-preloader defunct

[James Hawkins]

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 21:28:01 -0800, Bill Medland
<billmedland at mercuryspeed.com> wrote:
> 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
> 
> --
> Bill Medland
> mailto:billmedland at mercuryspeed.com
> http://webhome.idirect.com/~kbmed
> 

How can kill -9 not work?  It should kill the process without question
unless I'm wrong.

-- 
James Hawkins