home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer
- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!hellgate.utah.edu!lanl!mpx2.lampf.lanl.gov!silbar
- From: silbar@mpx2.lampf.lanl.gov (Dick Silbar)
- Subject: zombies (was Re: What does a task with priority -1 mean?)
- Message-ID: <10NOV199210153953@mpx2.lampf.lanl.gov>
- News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41
- Sender: news@newshost.lanl.gov
- Organization: LAMPF Data Analysis Center, Los Alamos, New Mexico
- References: <1dmp94INNppe@uwm.edu> <1992Nov10.152955.21859@menudo.uh.edu>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 17:15:00 GMT
- Lines: 19
-
- In article <1992Nov10.152955.21859@menudo.uh.edu>, sears@tree.egr.uh.edu writes...
- #A process with a PID of -1 (also stated as <mnach-task>) is really a zombied
- #process. A zombie doesn't not really cause any harm to the system, except
- #that it consumes 1 slot in the process table, of which there is a finite
- #number of slots. When you run out of process slots, you will crash.
- #
- #It seems that one of the major creators of zombies is NeXT's Terminal.app.
- #Generally whenever you close a terminal.app window, a zombie will be created.
- #
- #Btw, the zombies can not be "killed" (even will kill -9). Don't even bother
- #to attempt it. But if you do, be prepared to reboot from a panic :-)
-
- Interesting. So why is it that Project Builder creates a NEW terminal.app
- window EVERY time you click on "debug"? (I do that a lot.)
-
- Do they disappear when you log out? Or, do you have to reboot?
-
- Dick Silbar (NeXTMail:silbar@whistler.lanl.gov)
-
-