Hi guys,
Following your messages of not being able to replicate my problem I
thought I'd run it again and watch more closely as to what's going on.
Perhaps this is an problem with my distribution? Its SuSE 5.2 that came on
the PC PLUS October issue cover CD.
Anyways, I've noticed this time that the processes have become "zombies".
I've attached the output to a few commands. First, "ps" after stopping the
man. Second, the results of my first attempt to logout (with Ctrl+D).
Third, "ps x" after re-logging-in. Fourth, "ps x" after kill -9 130, when
it's died. Again, after looking on top the task was continually absorbing
memory. The results are the same on both the machine with 32Mb+64Mb swap,
and the 128Mb+0Mb swap.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Stephen.
(BTW, any ideas on the MIS/YP problem?)
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
115 1 S 0:00 -bash
116 2 S 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2
117 3 S 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3
118 4 S 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4
119 5 S 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5
120 6 S 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6
130 1 T 0:00 man X
131 1 T 0:00 sh -c /usr/bin/zsoelim '/usr/X11R6/man/man3/X.3x' | /usr/bin
132 1 T 0:00 sh -c { export MAN_PN LESS; MAN_PN='X(3x)'; LESS="$LESS\$-Pm
133 1 T N 0:00 gzip -c7
134 1 T 0:00 /usr/bin/zsoelim /usr/X11R6/man/man3/X.3x
135 1 T 0:00 groff -Wall -mtty-char -Tlatin1 -mandoc
136 1 T 0:00 less
139 1 T 0:00 troff -Wall -mtty-char -mandoc -Tlatin1
140 1 T 0:00 grotty
146 1 R 0:00 ps
There are stopped jobs.
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
1 ? S 0:04 init [2]
2 ? SW 0:00 (kflushd)
3 ? SW< 0:00 (kswapd)
4 ? SW 0:00 (nfsiod)
5 ? SW 0:00 (nfsiod)
6 ? SW 0:00 (nfsiod)
7 ? SW 0:00 (nfsiod)
15 ? S 0:00 update (bdflush)
46 ? S 0:00 /sbin/kerneld
73 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/klogd -c 1
75 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/syslogd
97 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron
102 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/inetd
104 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/gpm -t ms -m /dev/mouse
106 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/lpd
116 2 S 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2
117 3 S 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3
118 4 S 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4
119 5 S 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5
120 6 S 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6
121 ? S 0:00 sendmail: accepting connections on port 25
130 ? R 0:05 man X
131 ? Z 0:00 (sh <zombie>)
132 ? Z 0:00 (sh <zombie>)
133 ? Z N 0:00 (gzip <zombie>)
153 1 S 0:00 -bash
172 1 R 0:00 ps x
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
1 ? S 0:04 init [2]
2 ? SW 0:00 (kflushd)
3 ? SW< 0:00 (kswapd)
4 ? SW 0:00 (nfsiod)
5 ? SW 0:00 (nfsiod)
6 ? SW 0:00 (nfsiod)
7 ? SW 0:00 (nfsiod)
15 ? S 0:00 update (bdflush)
46 ? S 0:00 /sbin/kerneld
73 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/klogd -c 1
75 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/syslogd
97 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron
102 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/inetd
104 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/gpm -t ms -m /dev/mouse
106 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/lpd
116 2 S 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2
117 3 S 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3
118 4 S 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4
119 5 S 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5
120 6 S 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6
121 ? S 0:00 sendmail: accepting connections on port 25
153 1 S 0:00 -bash
186 1 R 0:00 ps x
