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
