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- From: splee@pd.org (Seng-Poh Lee, Speedy)
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- Subject: Re: What causes these Zombie processes?
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- Date: 7 Jan 93 20:27:04 GMT
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- Seng-Poh Lee, Speedy (splee@pd.org) wrote:
- > 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
- > the only way to get rid of them is with a reboot. This is a typical
- > 'ps -aux' screen after a few days.
- >
- > USER PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TT STAT START TIME COMMAND
- > root 1 0.0 3.3 32 136 ? S 23:39 0:00 init
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- I have identified the parent as the portmap daemon. So it appears the
- NFS server is responsible for these zombies. Am eagerly awaiting
- Rick's new release :-)
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- Seng-Poh Lee <splee@pd.org>
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