tags 536933 + wontfix thanks On tis, 2009-07-14 at 16:03 +0200, Radek Antoniuk wrote: > bandwidthd spawns children which become zombies what is not very elegant... > root 7925 0.0 0.0 6324 2180 ? SN 12:17 0:00 > /usr/sbin/bandwidthd > root 7926 0.0 0.0 6324 2172 ? SN 12:17 0:00 \_ > /usr/sbin/bandwidthd > root 708 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? ZN 15:57 0:00 | \_ > [bandwidthd] <defunct> > root 7927 0.0 0.0 6324 2172 ? SN 12:17 0:00 \_ > /usr/sbin/bandwidthd > root 28638 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? ZN 15:17 0:00 | \_ > [bandwidthd] <defunct> > root 7928 0.0 0.0 6324 2104 ? SN 12:17 0:00 \_ > /usr/sbin/bandwidthd > root 1313 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? ZN 16:01 0:00 \_ > [bandwidthd] <defunct>
Being elegant or not, it's part of the bandwidthd design and they get the defunct "processes" (threads) gets cleaned up on the next graphing run. If you monitor them you'll notice that they are only defunct until they get cleaned up, new ones will be created with new process ids when they are done graphing... This is described in the documentation. -- Regards, Andreas Henriksson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org