Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:02:34PM -0400, Hart, Harry M. CTR USJFCOM > SUPPORT.SUPPORT JTC-I wrote: >> I should have said NsClient++ instead of NRPE. It is a windows box I'm >> trying to monitor. > > That would have cleared it up, yes. > > Windows *has* zombie processes? I wouldn't have thought its process > model really created such... >
It doesn't. A zombie is, under Unix, a process that is waiting for its parent to collect its exit status. Windows has no concept of a process tree or process parentage at all. A child process under windows is what we under Unix would call a thread in a program, requiring a lot of library support to make it work. Such a model cannot have zombies in the usual sense. What you could check is if some process has been stuck in uninterruptable IO for a long time. I have no idea how, but I read some article somewhere about how one can parse the io-wait time of a process (though I'm not sure it's the total time for the entire lifetime of the process or just the current wait-time). -- Andreas Ericsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
