Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 19:15:07 -0700 From: "Ben Hyatt" <benjaminhyatt@hotmail.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "Jorge Biquez" <jbiquez@icsmx.com> Subject: Re: System Usage... Message-ID: <OE49uBeZVo2d3gwhDCv00003d29@hotmail.com> References: <5.0.2.1.2.20010424194509.03b3b100@icsmx.com>
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> I have 2 questions. > 1) What's a zombie process???? .Just curious. a process that has exited but whose parent hasn't called wait() on it to reap the exit status. > 2) How could I know that my system is overloaded?. Because of the use of > Memory? or Active process? idle percentage? use of swap memory? load averages in top... Each number represents the length of the system run queue averaged over 1, 5 and 15 minutes. Available memory is something to watch as well as swap free. > I'm sorry if this sounds too basic. > > Thanks in advance, > > JB -Ben To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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