On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 02:41:36PM +0200, Christian Pernegger wrote: > I keep getting the following line from ps aux > > root 9228 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 06:25 0:00 [logrotate] > <defunct> > > It's not there directly after a reboot, but only appers over night, which > implicates cron somewhat. I also have a lot of cron related processes, > though that may be normal:
No, it's not normal at all. It suggests a fault elsewhere. Are there any oddities showing in dmesg output or in /var/log/daemon.log ? How full is the partition /var is on? Zombies happen because a process has exited, but the process that's started them hasn't called wait() or waitpid() to get its exit status. When it happens again, do "ps -l <pid>" (in the case above it would be "ps -l 9228") to find out the parent PID of the zombie, then find out from that PID which process the kernel thinks should be picking up the exitcode. -- Paul Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
