On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Gordon Bergling wrote: > Hi, > > 0 p2 ZW+ 0:00.00 (sh) > 0 p2 ZW+ 0:00.00 (sh) > 0 p2 ZW+ 0:00.00 (sh) [...] > is running in the background. > > I am not sure about this. Maybe its a problem. These are "Zombies" and are there becasue the parent process (possibly pid 1) has not yet had a chance to clean them up. (due to the system being so busy). A Zombie process is one for which the parent has not yet called 'wait' to retrieve the statistics, exit status, etc.Received on Mon Dec 08 2003 - 11:16:22 UTC
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