| Attempts to 'kill 221' and 'kill -9 221' have failed. Am I missing something
| here?
Yes. Please see above.
Seriously, from the BSD manpage:
When printing using the command keyword, a process that has exited and
has a parent that has not yet waited for the process (in other words, a
zombie) is listed as ``<defunct>'', and a process which is blocked while
trying to exit is listed as ``<exiting>''.
Get the parent to exit and it may go away. If it doesn't, no big
deal, it no longer exists and does not actually use any resources.
--msa
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