From: DervishD <raul@pleyades.net>
To: Marc Giger <gigerstyle@gmx.ch>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dead processes
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 19:07:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021008170716.GK45@DervishD> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021008184024.27c95217.gigerstyle@gmx.ch>
Hi Marc :)
> 4260 ? Z 0:00 [gpg <defunct>]
> There are a lot of defunct processes which I can't kill.
> How comes? Normal? Solution?
They are 'Zombie' processes. At some point they will be
reparented to 'init' and it will get rid of them. Those processes are
dead but nobody has 'wait()'ed for them. 'init' will do ASAP. The
problem is if they aren't reparented to init.
Raúl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-08 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-08 16:40 dead processes Marc Giger
2002-10-08 17:07 ` DervishD [this message]
2002-10-08 17:12 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-10-08 17:14 ` DervishD
2002-10-08 17:59 ` Marc Giger
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