From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 24 19:15:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (oe49.law8.hotmail.com [216.33.240.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E14B37B423 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 19:15:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from benjaminhyatt@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 19:15:19 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [139.87.90.77] Reply-To: "Ben Hyatt" From: "Ben Hyatt" To: , "Jorge Biquez" References: <5.0.2.1.2.20010424194509.03b3b100@icsmx.com> Subject: Re: System Usage... Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 19:15:07 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.3018.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Apr 2001 02:15:19.0593 (UTC) FILETIME=[935CD190:01C0CD2D] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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