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Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 06:23:36 -0400
From: Brian Micek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Killing zombies
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--- Begin Message ---
You can't kill zombies because they are already dead. If a zombie is
sucking up CPU usage. something isn't right ... it should only be a place
holder in the process table. The purpose of a zombie is to allow the parent
process to know a process exited.
The typical way for to get rid of zombies is have the parent perform a
wait(2) on the process (or for the parent process to exit). Back in the
olden days, the understood way to launch a process that wouldn't create a
zombie was to fork(2) twice so it was owned by init. Now there are better
ways to go about this.
Brian
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From: "Crash" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 6:49 PM
Subject: Killing zombies
>
> Does anyone have, or know of a script/program setup that I can get that
> will kill zombied server processes?
>
> I don't get them often, but the fact that it takes 99% cpu usage is
> enough to get a fix. With more people getting servers that dont quite
> know what they are doing, it would be very helpful
>
> Thanks
> Crash
>
>
>
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