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- From: battjt@manager.nextwork.rose-hulman.edu (Joseph T. Batt)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: What causes these Zombie processes?
- Date: 7 Jan 1993 05:06:50 GMT
- Organization: Computer Science Department at Rose-Hulman
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- Message-ID: <1igdpaINN1j7@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu>
- References: <1993Jan6.172824.11389@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- In comp.os.linux article <1993Jan6.172824.11389@infodev.cam.ac.uk> you
- wrote:
- > In article <1798@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu>, splee@pd.org (Seng-Poh Lee,
- Speedy) writes:
- > |> After running for a few days, my Linux system ends up with quite a
- > |> few 'Zombie' processes. I can't kill them off, even with kill -9 and
- ..Stuff deleted...
- > Are you using olwm? I've only ever seen these zombies when running olwm,
- and they
- > all disappear when I leave X. How are you exiting X? Selecting Exit...
- from the
- > default menu under olwm cleans up all the zombies for me.
- >
- > --
- > -- Tim Cutts /~\ ----
-
- I have this problem too.
-
- I am running 0.99pl2 with binaries from just about every where. I am not
- running X(I have herc). I am running all of the network stuff except for
- mail.
-
- Isn't the traffic wonderful while everyone is off on break!
-
- Joe
-