| From: | "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Wed, 12 Jan 2005 21:11:20 +0100 |
On Wednesday, 12. January 2005 20:49, Rumko wrote: > On 2005-01-12, Jeroen <koffieyahoo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > "Rumko" <rumcic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On 2005-01-09, Rumko <rumcic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> Currently after a day of uptime I have 41 zombies and am > >>> running -current. > >>> Since as far as I know zombies are bad, I decided to say something > >>> about them. > >>> > >>>:) > >> > >> ok, now i have 206 zombies and 4 days of uptime ... kill -HUP 1 does not > >> reap > >> the zombies ... is this a bug or what? and what can i do to help find > >> it? > > > > Are you sure you aren't running a long running process which spawns child > > processes > > but does not properly wait() for them to terminate? > > > > Jeroen > > im sure ... the zombie processes are, multiple (esd), multiple (sendmail), > multiple (kclock.kss), multiple (sh), etc. rumko said that the ppid of all those zombies == 1. so init doesn't reap them. strange. -- /"\ \ / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign / \ Against HTML Mail and News
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