From owner-freebsd-questions  Fri Dec 14  5: 6:51 2001
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mail2.resfeber.se (Resfeber-gw.customer.internet5.net [195.66.48.230])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D0DD37B419
	for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 05:06:46 -0800 (PST)
Received: from resfeber.se ([212.75.72.9])
	by mail2.resfeber.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA14840;
	Fri, 14 Dec 2001 14:06:34 +0100
Message-ID: <3C19F8BB.84C5C352@resfeber.se>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 14:03:55 +0100
From: Jon Molin <Jon.Molin@resfeber.se>
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386)
X-Accept-Language: en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Daniel Abad <dabad@cidadei.com.br>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: zombie ?
References: <9CF6FAED416EA043A968ED643E13719502C6C44C@prima-exc01.cidadei.com.br>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
List-ID: <freebsd-questions.FreeBSD.ORG>
List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive)
List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions)
List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-questions>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-questions>
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

a child who the parent forgot to kill (which happends far to often:)

http://unix.about.com/library/glossary/bldef-zombie-process.htm

/Jon

Daniel Abad wrote:
> 
> Hello !
> 
> In my FreeBsd 4.3, I´m running a lot of process and some of them are
> sleeping... as you can see:
> 
> 289 processes: 1 running, 287 sleeping, 1 zombie
> 
> .. and now: What is that ZOMBIE????
> 
> Tks.
> 
> Daniel
> 
> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message