Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 12:16:12 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Gordon Bergling <gordon@bsd-network.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: strange pids under heavy load (5.2-RC) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0312081213460.44692-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20031208200906.GA49037@nemesis.md.0xfce3.net>
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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.
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