From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Apr 19 16:14:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA03344 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 16:14:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from frmug.org (frmug-gw.frmug.org [193.56.58.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA03332; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 23:14:07 GMT (envelope-from pb@fasterix.frmug.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by frmug.org (8.8.8/frmug-2.2/nospam) with UUCP id BAA29516; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 01:14:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from pb@fasterix.frmug.org) Received: (from pb@localhost) by fasterix.frmug.org (8.8.8/8.8.5/pb-19970302) id BAA17944; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 01:13:36 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19980420011335.SG57732@@> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 01:13:35 +0200 From: pb@fasterix.freenix.org (Pierre Beyssac) To: phk@FreeBSD.ORG (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/5236 References: <199804190706.AAA21785@freefall.freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.59.1e Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199804190706.AAA21785@freefall.freebsd.org>; from Poul-Henning Kamp on Apr 19, 1998 00:06:06 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Poul-Henning Kamp writes: > Synopsis: CPU and mem not zeroed for zombie process > > I don't think this behaviour is wrong. What do you perceive as a problem > with it ? The problem is that a zombie process can be shown (by ps) as using a non-zero amount of CPU (and mem) for hours. It clearly isn't an accurate view of actual usage of system resources. Maybe it has an influence on load averages computations too. -- Pierre Beyssac pb@fasterix.frmug.org pb@fasterix.freenix.org {Free,Net,Open}BSD, Linux : il y a moins bien, mais c'est plus cher Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message