From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 7 12:12:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA10328 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 12:12:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ccsales.com (ccsales.com [216.0.22.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA10320 for ; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 12:12:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from randyk@ccsales.com) Received: (from randyk@localhost) by ccsales.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id MAA22665; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 12:12:45 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <19981207121245.09620@ccsales.com> Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 12:12:45 -0800 From: randyk To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: randyk@ccsales.com Subject: Zombie Processes Reply-To: randyk@ccsales.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I've noticed that sendmail misbehaves when there are zombie processes and that it is not easy to get rid of these processes: 2118 ?? Z 0:00.00 (sendmail) 3356 ?? Ss 0:00.01 sendmail: accepting connections on port 25 (sendmail) 3357 ?? S 0:00.18 sendmail: LAA01821: from queue (sendmail) 5509 ?? Z 0:00.00 (sendmail) 12905 ?? Z 0:00.00 (sendmail) 14306 ?? Z 0:00.00 (sendmail) 27086 ?? Z 0:00.00 (sendmail) 3379 p1 R+ 0:00.00 grep sendmail kill -9 does not work. Does anyone know how to deal with these without rebooting? Thank you, Randy Katz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message