Brett Monroe wrote: > Hey all, > > I am seeing an issue on one of our Solaris 10 servers and I would like > to get more insight into what is going on. I suspect it is a kernel > bug and I think mdb is the only way I can look into the kernel to see > what's going on (with respect to this issue). My mdb skills are close > to non-existent so please bear with me. :) Anyway, here is what I am > seeing: > > The Server is running Solaris 10 Kernel 138888-02. I have some > processes that appear in the process table and in /proc but they won't > die if killed and can't be trussed and p* commands fail with the error > "no such process."
do they appear in a 'ps -ef' listing, perhaps as "defunct"? in that case, you have so-called zombies, which are processed that have exited but whose exit code still needs to be reaped. HTH Michael -- Michael Schuster http://blogs.sun.com/recursion Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion'
