> On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 08:52:36AM -0500, Cory Snavely wrote:
> > Right now on a big Solaris machine of mine I have about a dozen zombied
> > Perls--parent process (Apache) long gone, and when I -9ed them, their
PPIDs
> > became 1 (init). Classic zombie.
>
> Hrrrm? Not quite. Init eventually in
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 08:52:36AM -0500, Cory Snavely wrote:
> Right now on a big Solaris machine of mine I have about a dozen zombied
> Perls--parent process (Apache) long gone, and when I -9ed them, their PPIDs
> became 1 (init). Classic zombie.
Hrrrm? Not quite. Init eventually inherits zomb
> > One thing about zombie process: Don't worry about trying to "make" them
go
> > away. They don't consume any CPU time, or any other resources other
than
> > the slot in the process table and the less than 1K of memory required to
> > hold their state information. They are not worth worrying ab
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Ron Peterson wrote:
> > away. They don't consume any CPU time, or any other resources other than
> > the slot in the process table and the less than 1K of memory required to
...
> Not entirely true. Init can inherit enough zombie processes that it
> hits its process limit (10
William T Wilson wrote:
>
> On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, brian moore wrote:
>
> > > does the process list "Z" under STAT ? if it is the process has gone
> > > zombied and i don't think there is much you can do. sometimes zombie'd
> > > processes die on their own eventually many times they will not die un
William T Wilson wrote:
>
> On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, brian moore wrote:
>
> > > does the process list "Z" under STAT ? if it is the process has gone
> >
> > Not quite true... zombies don't ever die: they're already dead.
>
> While the description of zombie processes is accurate, I think another
> li
William T Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, brian moore wrote:
>
>> > does the process list "Z" under STAT ? if it is the process has gone
>> > zombied and i don't think there is much you can do. sometimes zombie'd
>> > processes die on their own eventually many times they wil
> "William" == William T Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
William> One thing about zombie process: Don't worry about trying
William> to "make" them go away. They don't consume any CPU time,
William> or any other resources other than the slot in the process
William> table and
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, brian moore wrote:
> > does the process list "Z" under STAT ? if it is the process has gone
> > zombied and i don't think there is much you can do. sometimes zombie'd
> > processes die on their own eventually many times they will not die until
> > you reboot ..
>
> Not quite
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 09:59:47PM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote:
> Brian Stults wrote:
> >
> > As the subject indicates, there are some processes that hang and cannot
> > be killed. Specifically, occasionally dselect will hang while trying to
> > install a package. After waiting for a long time, I t
Brian Stults wrote:
>
> As the subject indicates, there are some processes that hang and cannot
> be killed. Specifically, occasionally dselect will hang while trying to
> install a package. After waiting for a long time, I try both Ctrl-c and
> Ctrl-z and neither will work. Then I try to kill
As the subject indicates, there are some processes that hang and cannot
be killed. Specifically, occasionally dselect will hang while trying to
install a package. After waiting for a long time, I try both Ctrl-c and
Ctrl-z and neither will work. Then I try to kill the process from
another xterm.
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