killing wine dregs

[Mike McCormack]

wino at piments.com wrote:

> bash-3.00#pgrep wine -l
> 10666 wineserver
> 10690 wine-preloader
> bash-3.00#
> 
> 
> I took the system right down to the login console and still cant clean up.
> 
> Do I really have to reboot as the only way to clean up this mess?
> 
> This is taking windows emulation too far!! ;)

"killall -9 wine-preloader" works for me every time, however some older 
kernels have a bug which causes zombie processes (a placeholder for the 
process return code) to never be removed in the kernel.  I think this 
was fixed around Linux 2.6.7 (ie. the unpatched Linux kernel).

Mike