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 Message-ID: <19980420011335.SG57732@@> In-Reply-To: <199804190706.AAA21785@freefall.freebsd.org>; from Poul-Henning Kamp on Apr 19, 1998 00:06:06 -0700 References: <199804190706.AAA21785@freefall.freebsd.org>
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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.
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Pierre Beyssac pb@fasterix.frmug.org pb@fasterix.freenix.org
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