On another Unix I found Zombies disappear when the user that created them
logged out.
I used to worry about them but they don't take up much space and they
certainly disappear on a reboot.
I think they just occupy a time slice in the proc table, which may be
irritating to some, but they don't seem to impact performance.
Frisch (Essential System Administration) (O'Reilly) just says ignore them.
Really the problem should be fixed in the apps (Netscape and E, in this
case).
Actually I have seen E do some truly gross things. Just out of curiosity
last year I spent an interesting wee hour on Mike's DEC Alpha, od -c some
core dump from E (for the umteenth time) whilst listening to Tangerine
Dream. E appears to (when it goes mad) replicate itself ad infinitum into
all memory and swap space. A disaster if run up as root and left overnight.
Perhaps we should've re-compiled it :) but that's a bit OT.
Regards,
Jill.
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Jill Rowling
Senior Design Engineer & Unix System Administrator
Electronic Engineering Department, Aristocrat Leisure Industries
3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018
Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Wilkinson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 12:04 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Killing D-state and zombie processes
>
>
> No, I mean well and truly crashed... Netscape crashed and E closed the
> windows, but there are now 3 d-state and 3 zombies of netscape on the
> system.
>
> But yeah, when it's crashed and left a window open, I kill it off with a
> right-click to the close button, it sends a SIGKILL to netscape.
> Unfortunately, it has gone way past that stage.
>
> I am thinking the only way to get rid of zombies and d-states is to
> reboot... but this is UNIX, dammit! There must be a way to clean up a
> running system ;)
>
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