Gregor Maier wrote: > > On 28-Aug-2001 J. Craig Woods wrote: > > Sergio Korlowsky wrote: > >> > >> On Tuesday 28 August 2001 12:00 am, you wrote: > >> > Greetings, > >> > > >> > Has anyone taken the plunge into 2.4.8-12mdk? I have done so, and I am > >> > observing some strange things. For one, top shows one zombie running, > >> > and I can not figure out what it might be. No amount of "ps" commands > >> > with every possible arg has yet to reveal this zombie. On every other > >> > UNIX system that I have worked on, a zombie is NOT a wanted daemon. My > >> > gut, not my head, tells me it has something to do with "keytable" > >> > because, on several boots, it failed to start. I took a look at > >> > "etc/sysconfig/keytable", and all entries look correct. Does anyone have > >> > a trick to identify a zombie on Linux? Is this a bug in 2.4.8-12mdk? > >> > >> I did... and I am back to 2.4.8-5mdk > >> is not by any chance kpnpbios <defunct> "Z" I had that before... hmmmm > > > > Sergio, > > > > You hit first time out, buddy! What the hell is it, some kind of process > > for running a kde version of "plug & plug? It has no pid assigned to it, > > how do you kill it? And thanks... > > > Just guessing here but I suppose the k stands for kernel. Is that's true then > it's a kernel process/thread which cannot be killed from userspace. This also > means that it doesn't take any resources. > There's some similiar discussion on this list concerning some other kernel > process. IIRC Civileme said that newer version of ps/top will handle such > processes and not show them. > > Gregor Gregor, You guess right! Upon further investigation, I think it is a kernel process, and it can not be killed. I acts a bit buggy but I will keep an eye on it, and see what happens. drjung -- J. Craig Woods UNIX SA -Art is the illusion of spontaneity-
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