On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 03:31:52PM -0700 I heard the voice of Doug Barton, and lo! it spake thus: > For some time now on -current whenever I run mtv, it leaves a zombie after > it exits: > > USER PID PPID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND > doug 0 1 0.0 0.0 0 0 ZW - 0:00.00 (mtvp) FWIW, I've seen this also. At one time there was something weird in the Linux emulation layer that made _all_ Linux binaries leave zombies lying around; I have vague memories that mtv did keep doing it after that was fixed. You'd be amazed the effect on system performance that 2 thousand zombies can have 8-) My solution was to just dump mtv; about that time mplayer started getting itself workable. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd_at_over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"Received on Sun May 11 2003 - 17:37:19 UTC
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