Just installed Debian on my SparcStation 5 (32mb ram 2 gb hd 270mhz processor) am loving it but it is not loving me. I works fine for a couple hours and then boom all the processes that die hang around as defuncts. I have installed for the 3rd time and it is at least stable enough I can use it. The first 2 times it kept defuncting in the middle of installing and screwed it up royally.
Anyways... if anyone has any ideas I am open to trying anything... Here are my stats and a ps list and thanks in advance for even just looking at this E-mail. fully on unstable kernel built from scratch and have tried both 2.2.9 and 2.2.12 PS: USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1 99.5 0.2 1200 80 ? R Oct26 1085:12 init root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Oct26 0:00 [kflushd] root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Oct26 0:00 [kpiod] root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Oct26 0:00 [kswapd] root 15 0.0 0.1 1160 60 ? S Oct26 0:00 update root 106 0.0 0.3 1244 108 ? S Oct26 0:00 /sbin/klogd daemon 111 0.0 0.2 1368 64 ? S Oct26 0:00 /sbin/portmap root 119 0.0 0.3 1556 120 ? S Oct26 0:00 /usr/sbin/ypbind root 120 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Oct26 0:00 \_ [ypbind <defu root 121 0.0 0.3 1556 120 ? S Oct26 0:00 /usr/sbin/ypbind root 123 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Oct26 0:00 [ypbind <defunct> root 127 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Oct26 0:00 [inetd <defunct>] root 133 0.0 0.3 1804 96 ? S Oct26 0:00 /usr/sbin/lpd root 140 0.0 0.3 1336 92 ? S Oct26 0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.sta root 157 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Oct26 0:00 [rpciod] root 158 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Oct26 0:00 [lockd] daemon 159 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Oct26 0:00 [atd <defunct>] root 162 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Oct26 0:00 [cron <defunct>] root 170 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Oct26 0:00 [xdm <defunct>] root 171 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Oct26 0:00 [bash <defunct>] root 172 0.0 4.2 2484 1288 tty2 S Oct26 0:00 -bash root 383 22.0 3.0 2756 924 tty2 R 11:29 0:00 \_ ps -auxf root 173 0.0 0.0 1504 0 tty3 SW Oct26 0:00 [getty] root 174 0.0 0.0 1504 0 tty4 SW Oct26 0:00 [getty] root 175 0.0 0.0 1504 0 tty5 SW Oct26 0:00 [getty] root 177 0.0 0.0 1504 0 tty6 SW Oct26 0:00 [getty] root 178 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Oct26 0:11 [Xsun <defunct>] freeman 237 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Oct26 0:00 [bhxterm <defunct freeman 242 0.0 0.2 1824 80 ? S Oct26 0:00 \-[ping <defunct>] root 288 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Oct26 0:00 [xconsole <defunc root 317 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Oct26 0:00 [ssh-agent <defun root 371 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:21 0:00 [lynx <defunct>] -- Todd Freeman .^. Don't fear the penguins! CS Unix Support /V\ CAST Online Editor // \\ http://www.linux.org/ http://www.andrews.edu/~freeman/ /( )\ http://www.debian.org/ ^^ ^^
