Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 14:45:24 -0600 From: Gerd Knops <gerti@bitart.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Zombies eat CPU? Message-ID: <19991229204524.21060.qmail@camelot.bitart.com>
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Hi everyone, I noticed that in FreeBSD (seen it on 3.1, 3.2, 3.3) zombies often are listed with high PRI (close to 100) and %CPU (often close to 10%). ps -aux tends to report them at the top. However top does not list them, and uptime does not indicate that they eat CPU time. So is it that ps just gets invalid info due to the zombie state of the process, or is the 'zombie handling' CPU intensive? Thanks Gerd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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