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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!swrinde!howland.erols.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: What is a zombie? Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 21:02:09 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 19 Message-ID: <32499DD1.4632@www.play-hookey.com> References: <52a5dt$qef@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) Dannyman wrote: > > Newbie question here, but when I run top, what *is* a zombie? > Should I worry? It's certainly a cute term! > > danke for the illumination! > Basically, it's a process that no longer has an owner. As such, it can't be found or killed (you'll get a "no such process" message) even though it shows up in ps ax, with a Z status. The only way I know to get rid of zombies is to reboot. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |