See my rant on Zombies - should have the info you need - http://www.advogato.org/person/johnnyb/diary.html?start=31
Jon On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Mike Vanecek wrote: > I have searched around looking for a definition of a zombie process and found > this one: > > "a zombie process is basically an ill-behaving creature that might mess up the > system (usually because it is dead but not quite dead, whereas it should be > quite dead, hence the name zombie). But since linux identifies it as zombie, > it's constrained to the graveyard, so that won't actually happen. The only > real danger with zombies is when you have lots of them." > > While running top, I saw that I had a zombie process. Best I could tell, it > was left over from testing linksysmon. I did a sigterm on it and trucked on. > > Question, I assume that a zombie is something that did not get terminated > cleanly? Will I ever run into a problem with doing a sigterm on the zombie > process? If yes, when and what should I watch out for? > > Thanks. > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
