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TOP & shortly Zombie Processes

 
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mario.schroeder
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‎02-08-2004 09:44 PM

‎02-08-2004 09:44 PM

TOP & shortly Zombie Processes

Hi,
whenn I look into the TOP of our ias so I can see shortly 1 or 2 Zombie processes and after a few seconds they are away.

215 processes: 152 sleeping, 62 running, 1 zombie

and the nice is going to near 50%
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Mark Grant
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‎02-08-2004 09:45 PM

‎02-08-2004 09:45 PM

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Re: TOP & shortly Zombie Processes

This is the normal operation of a unix system. Processes that exit are zombies until their parent cleans up after them. A zombie does not take any resources that will bother you.
Never preceed any demonstration with anything more predictive than "watch this"
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G. Vrijhoeven
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‎02-08-2004 10:08 PM

‎02-08-2004 10:08 PM

Re: TOP & shortly Zombie Processes

Sure!
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