From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jun 12 13:35:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A627A37B40C for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 13:35:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 12 Jun 2002 21:35:07 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 21:35:06 +0100 From: David Malone To: Layder Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Zombie processes Message-ID: <20020612203506.GA14359@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <20020612225810.D2721-100000@cyanide.pro> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020612225810.D2721-100000@cyanide.pro> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 11:00:44PM +0300, Layder wrote: > Processes in my box never gone. They become zombies and their > quantity increased with time and than locks the system talking that > cannot fork process. What can I do? This can occasionally happen if init gets stuck in a strange state. Have a look at the parent process ID of the zombies, and if it is 1, then do "ps -p 1 -o wchan" and see what state it is in. (It is usually in "wait"). David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message