Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 10:15:12 +0200 From: Stefano Riva <sriva@alice.it> To: Paul Dekkers <psd@cgu.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP: Why all those zombie's? Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19990412101512.0095f350@relay.alice.it> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990412094053.16993A-100000@chippie.cgu>
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At 09.44 12/04/99 +0200, you 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. You have to identify those processes. Are they all instances of the same program? If so, who's the parent of that program (i.e. where is it started from)? A zombie is a process that has died, but its slot in the process table has not been released, probably because the parent has blocked without doing a proper "wait". --- Stefano Riva Software Engineer - Systems Administrator Informazioni Editoriali I.E. Srl Phone +39-027528400, Fax +39-027528451 Email sriva@alice.it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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