From: Giuliano Pochini <pochini@shiny.it>
To: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
<flavio@conectiva.com.br (Flavio Bruno Leitner)>
Subject: Re: Strange ps line
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 10:07:02 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <XFMail.20010919100702.pochini@shiny.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200109190320.f8J3KC3272695@saturn.cs.uml.edu>
>>> From "ps axuw":
>>>
>>> USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
>>> httpd 5020 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 16:46 0:00 [getcod.cgi <defunct>]
>>> httpd 5022 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 16:46 0:00 [getcod.cgi <defunct>]
>>> httpd 5025 0.0 0.0 589505315 0 ? ZL 16:46 0:00 [getcod.cgi <defunct>]
>>> httpd 5049 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 16:46 0:00 [getcod.cgi <defunct>]
>>>
>>> That cgi doesn't lock memory and surely I don't have so much memory.
>>
>> Look at http://www.erlenstar.demon.co.uk/unix/faq_2.html#SEC14
>> maybe this can help you.
>
> Yes and no. It might solve his zombie problem, but what about that
> outrageous VSZ and the locked memory? Useful info would be:
>
> /proc/5025/status
> /proc/5025/stat
That strange line is extremely rare. Actually it's the first time I see it and
I was unable to reproduce. And since it's a zombie it just didn't live enough
to type "cat /proc/....". I think there is a race somewhere. I don't know if
it's dangerous of if it only accects /proc reads sometimes ?
Bye.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-19 8:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-17 18:33 PCI - Tseng ET6000 - bad memory amount detection Marek Mentel
2001-09-17 13:03 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-17 15:37 ` Strange ps line Giuliano Pochini
2001-09-17 19:06 ` Flavio Bruno Leitner
2001-09-19 3:20 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-09-19 8:07 ` Giuliano Pochini [this message]
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