From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 11 19:37:19 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51ECF37B401; Sun, 11 May 2003 19:37:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from praetor.linc-it.com (hardtime.linuxman.net [66.147.26.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7205543FAF; Sun, 11 May 2003 19:37:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fullermd@over-yonder.net) Received: from mortis.over-yonder.net (adsl-156-168-100.jan.bellsouth.net [66.156.168.100]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by praetor.linc-it.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BCF21543B; Sun, 11 May 2003 21:37:16 -0500 (CDT) Received: by mortis.over-yonder.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id 33D9520F27; Sun, 11 May 2003 21:37:13 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 21:37:12 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Doug Barton Message-ID: <20030512023712.GA50960@over-yonder.net> References: <20030511152206.R13689@znfgre.qbhto.arg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030511152206.R13689@znfgre.qbhto.arg> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i-fullermd.1 X-Editor: vi X-OS: FreeBSD cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mtv leaves a zombie after exit X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 02:37:19 -0000 On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 03:31:52PM -0700 I heard the voice of Doug Barton, and lo! it spake thus: > For some time now on -current whenever I run mtv, it leaves a zombie after > it exits: > > USER PID PPID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND > doug 0 1 0.0 0.0 0 0 ZW - 0:00.00 (mtvp) FWIW, I've seen this also. At one time there was something weird in the Linux emulation layer that made _all_ Linux binaries leave zombies lying around; I have vague memories that mtv did keep doing it after that was fixed. You'd be amazed the effect on system performance that 2 thousand zombies can have 8-) My solution was to just dump mtv; about that time mplayer started getting itself workable. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"