Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 14:49:27 -0500 (EST) From: Joe Oliveiro <joe@advancewebhosting.com> To: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> Cc: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com>, guenther.schmidt@bigfoot.de, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Processes that have been terminated still resident in system! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101151448110.3107-100000@joe.pythonvideo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010115055953.A976@raggedclown.net>
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Thats not the only thing, I've notice the same problem with apache running php. What happens is that all the apache childs die off leaving the master running which wont die even if i kill -9 <pid> it. With netscape/SO you should be able to kill the PIDs have free up the consumed resources. Microsoft: "Where would you like to go to today" Linux: "Where would you like to go tomorrow" FreeBSD: "Hey,when are you guys going to catch up" On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 05:59:42PM -0600, Christopher Farley wrote: > > Guenther Schmidt (gue.schmidt@web.de) wrote: > > > > > I'm using 4.2 Stable. I found that when I finish with certain programms > > > I can still see them taking up rescources under top. Namely netscape and > > > Staroffice. > > > > > > This continued even after I logged out from X, process was still > > > resident. > > > > > > Is this because the programs are natively linux programms or is it just > > > something that happens occasionaly? > > > > It shouldn't have anything to do with them being Linux programs. It > > probably has to do with the fact that Netscape and StarOffice are > > gigantic and buggy. I wouldn't worry too much about it unless it happens > > consistently. > > I can vouch for this with Netscape, also under Linux and Sunos it > sometimes just doesn't know when it has outstayed it's welcome ... > > For information: Netscape is approximately 11 million lines of code.. > all dedicated to taking over every dribble of resource on your > computer and hanging on like grim death to it ... > > Cliff > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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