Re: [arch-general] Zombie Processes

2014-08-27 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Aug 27, 2014 4:57 PM, "toerb" wrote: > > > > >Are you saying that is wrong and the only thing being taken up is just > >a tiny bundle of data? > > Exactly. It does consume a PID, which can, depending on the environment, be a very limited resource.

Re: [arch-general] Zombie Processes

2014-08-27 Thread Andy Pieters
Kevin Ott wrote: > It doesn't make sense that zombie processes would take up anything more than > a few bits (possibly a bit more) somewhere if you understand what exactly > they are. Zombie processes are just processes that have finished doing > everything they need to do. The only reason t

Re: [arch-general] Zombie Processes

2014-08-27 Thread Kevin Ott
On Wednesday, August 27, 2014 02:48:55 PM Andy Pieters wrote: > > On 27 August 2014 02:03, Jan Alexander Steffens > wrote: > > > > No, since a zombie process is dead and cannot execute any code. > > >To expand more on that: zombie process in not really a process > >anymore. In fact, it's not an

Re: [arch-general] Zombie Processes

2014-08-27 Thread toerb
>Are you saying that is wrong and the only thing being taken up is just >a tiny bundle of data? Exactly.

Re: [arch-general] Zombie Processes

2014-08-27 Thread Andy Pieters
On 27 August 2014 02:03, Jan Alexander Steffens wrote: > > No, since a zombie process is dead and cannot execute any code. >To expand more on that: zombie process in not really a process >anymore. In fact, it's not anything more than a little bundle of data >(basically just an integer containin

Re: [arch-general] Zombie Processes

2014-08-27 Thread Lukas Jirkovsky
On 27 August 2014 02:03, Jan Alexander Steffens wrote: > > No, since a zombie process is dead and cannot execute any code. To expand more on that: zombie process in not really a process anymore. In fact, it's not anything more than a little bundle of data (basically just an integer containing the

Re: [arch-general] Zombie Processes

2014-08-26 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 1:54 AM, Mark Lee wrote: > I was wondering regarding the killing of a zombie process. As far as I > know, a zombied process is inherited by root when it's parent is > killed. The kernel periodically calls wait() which reaps the zombie > process and frees its memory. I was w

Re: [arch-general] Zombie Processes

2014-08-26 Thread Daniel Micay
On 26/08/14 07:54 PM, Mark Lee wrote: > To all, > > I was wondering regarding the killing of a zombie process. As far as I > know, a zombied process is inherited by root when it's parent is > killed. The kernel periodically calls wait() which reaps the zombie > process and frees its memory. I was