- Franky Van Liedekerke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
| I'm seeing a lot of zombies in my process list (qmail 1.03 with anti
| spam from Sam). Is this a known problem or do I need some patch? Or do
| they time out?
Zombies are processes whose parents have not waited for them. They
never time out. The stay until the parent wait()s, or the parent
exits without waiting, in which case the init process takes over
parenthood and takes care of the wait so the process is removed from
the process table. In other words, you need to look at the parent
processes to get some idea what is going on.
- Harald
