Hi, On Mon Dec 08, 2003 at 12:16PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > 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. Please excuse my nescience. ;) --Gordon -- Gordon Bergling <GBergling_at_bsd-network.org> http://www.0xFCE3.net/ PGP Fingerprint: 7732 9BB1 5013 AE8B E42C 28E0 93B9 D32B C76F 02A0 RIPE-HDL: MDTP-RIPE "There is no place like 127.0.0.0/8"Received on Mon Dec 08 2003 - 11:45:05 UTC
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