From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 12 1: 1:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from odyssey.apana.org.au (odyssey.apana.org.au [203.11.114.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2956B1548B for ; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 01:01:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dean@odyssey.apana.org.au) Received: from localhost (dean@localhost) by odyssey.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA05639; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 15:58:17 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from dean@odyssey.apana.org.au) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 15:58:17 +0800 (WST) From: Dean Hollister To: Paul Dekkers Cc: FreeBSD Mailinglist Subject: Re: HELP: Why all those zombie's? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-no-archive: yes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Paul Dekkers wrote: > I ran top, and suddenly I saw: > 321 processes: 1 running, 24 sleeping, 1 stopped, 295 zombie > > AW! Why all those zombie's? I still see processes from some days ago in > ps auxww, is a reboot the only method? (And won't it occur again?) > The box is running 3.0R and is a 486 with 40MB's of ram. Just do a: bash#ps -axj | grep Z Then kill all the parent processes, and/or work out what they were. d. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message