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- From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
- Subject: Re: zombies (was Re: What does a task with priority -1 mean?)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.023136.14152@macc.wisc.edu>
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- Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison
- References: <10NOV199210153953@mpx2.lampf.lanl.gov> <1992Nov10.183316.6169@menudo.uh.edu>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 02:31:36 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov10.183316.6169@menudo.uh.edu>
- sears@tree.egr.uh.edu writes:
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- >Zombies stick around until a crash or reboot. Logging out will not "clean"
- >the system of any zombied processes...
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- Having just tried this, I can report that *immediately* following
- a reboot, then logging in as myself, opening a Stuart window,
- and doing a ps aux, all as quickly as I can, I find five zombies
- already. Now why is that? (fyi, 040 cube NS 3.0).
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