Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 18:21:54 +0200 From: Lutz Albers <lutz@muc.de> To: amora@zoom.es Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Becoming a daemon the long way... Message-ID: <v03102700af7171ec76ca@[192.168.42.51]> In-Reply-To: <199704091558.RAA05431@silvester.zoom.es> References: <199704090839.KAA19213@tavari.muc.de>
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Hi, >large number of zombies when it goes REALLY short of memory -and >probably of CPU-. This is annoying, since you've got your process >table plagued with these nasty guys. Again, are there kernel-related >conditions -say race conditions, I don't know- that makes a system >prone to generate zombies? Has this been observed in FreeBSD? I haven't noted this behaviour on my personal FreeBSD server (2.1 series), but this server is usually not to overloaded. I know from friends of mine which are using Solaris 2.5 (Ultra-class machines), that these machines tend to keep zombies. They have to reboot their machines once a week to clean the process table. ciao lutz -- Lutz Albers, lutz@muc.de Do not take life too seriously, you will never get out of it alive.
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