From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 9 19:39:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA06504 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 19:39:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from colin.Muc.DE (root@colin.muc.de [193.174.4.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA06484 for ; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 19:38:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tavari.muc.de ([193.174.4.22]) by colin.muc.de with SMTP id <86035-1>; Thu, 10 Apr 1997 04:38:40 +0200 Received: from [192.168.42.51] (aleisha.tavari.muc.de [192.168.42.51]) by tavari.muc.de (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA20079; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 18:24:10 +0200 (MET DST) X-Sender: lutz@mail Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199704091558.RAA05431@silvester.zoom.es> References: <199704090839.KAA19213@tavari.muc.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 18:21:54 +0200 To: amora@zoom.es From: Lutz Albers Subject: Re: Becoming a daemon the long way... Cc: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.