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Date:      Mon, 12 Apr 1999 15:58:17 +0800 (WST)
From:      Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>
To:        Paul Dekkers <psd@cgu.nl>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailinglist <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: HELP: Why all those zombie's?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904121557440.4123-100000@odyssey.apana.org.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990412094053.16993A-100000@chippie.cgu>

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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.



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