It is much easier to find zombie tasks if you just do: ps -ef | grep defunct
top - 23:58:49 up 8 days, 23:18, 4 users, load average: 2.36, 2.25, 2.17 Tasks: 628 total, 3 running, 194 sleeping, 0 stopped, 431 zombie nwayno@bart:~$ ps -ef | grep defunct nwayno 324 5807 0 Mar31 ? 00:00:00 [pidgin] <defunct> nwayno 336 5807 0 Mar31 ? 00:00:00 [pidgin] <defunct> nwayno 343 5807 0 Mar31 ? 00:00:00 [pidgin] <defunct> nwayno 354 5807 0 Mar31 ? 00:00:00 [pidgin] <defunct> nwayno 364 5807 0 Mar31 ? 00:00:00 [pidgin] <defunct> nwayno 368 5807 0 Mar31 ? 00:00:00 [pidgin] <defunct> nwayno 404 5807 0 Mar31 ? 00:00:00 [pidgin] <defunct> nwayno 415 5807 0 Mar31 ? 00:00:00 [pidgin] <defunct> nwayno 418 5807 0 Mar31 ? 00:00:00 [pidgin] <defunct> nwayno 431 5807 0 Mar31 ? 00:00:00 [pidgin] <defunct> nwayno 443 5807 0 Mar31 ? 00:00:00 [pidgin] <defunct> nwayno 447 5807 0 Mar31 ? 00:00:00 [pidgin] <defunct> nwayno 468 5807 0 Mar31 ? 00:00:00 [pidgin] <defunct> -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1245666 Title: Pidgin is creating zombies To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/pidgin/+bug/1245666/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
