On Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 07:41:08PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I have install sparc-debian on a small Sun machine (IPC) and > configure it as an X terminal. Specifically I have a script with > launches this command at boot > [snip] > The problem is real because I have seen it happens many times, but it > kind of unreproducible. It is at the least annoying because one might > need to make many trial to get to the xdm login screen. Furtther, > after several days I could have more than 10 zombie chooser and this > seems to slowdown the machine. So what I have done is to restart xdm > every week or so. This is the only way I have found (sort of > rebooting) to get rid of the zombie, kill -9 dosn't work at all (why ?).
Kill -9 wont kill a zombie. A zombie is formed when a proces s fork()s and the child exits. Until the parent calls wait() to get the return value of the child the child sticks around as a zombie...it is not actually running... it is just taking up a process entry. When you kill xdm (the parent) it fixes it... I dunno about the rest...just that this i snormal for a zombie (I had a zombie problem when I was working on making xfstt accept multiple connections) -Steve -- /* -- Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>------------ */ E-mail "Bumper Stickers": "A FREE America or a Drug-Free America: You can't have both!" "honk if you Love Linux"
