kirkaas@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (paul kirkaas) (09/17/90)
Every Sunday I my 3b1 gets clogged with defunct zombie processes. I have changed everything in crontab to other days of the week, but almost every Sunday I get all these zombies (although sometimes weeks go by without this happening). This has only been going on for a few months. Ever since 3.51m? I don't remember; I didn't correlate it until I read thos posts on 3.51m init problems and noticed that all the defunt processes were children of init. I have included a small sample of ps output, but I deleted 65 lines of defunct processes. Any suggestions? What the heck is going on here? Thanks, Paul -- Paul Kirkaas kirkaas@cs.ucla.edu _____________________________________________________________________________ F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADR SZ:RSZ WCHAN STIME TTY TIME COMD 3 S root 0 0 0 0 20 53 0: 0 264a8 Sep 6 ? 12298:06 swapper 1 S root 1 0 4 49 20 56 6: 5 70900 Sep 6 ? 17:42 init 3 S root 2 0 0 1 20 54 48: 0 4b4cc Sep 6 ? 2:22 pagedaemon 3 S root 3 0 0 3 20 55 0: 0 5977c Sep 6 ? 114:26 windaemon 1 S root 92 1 3 40 20 101 30: 15 4b5ac Sep 6 w1 0:47 ua 1 S root 8307 92 6 40 20 1a6 31: 8 4b61c Sep 13 w2 0:18 ksh 1 R root 10322 8307 57 74 20 a5 7: 11 14:03:53 w2 0:01 ps 1 S root 85 1 3 27 20 c3 73: 70 5af14 Sep 6 w3 13:09 wmgr 1 S root 124 1 3 27 20 129 85: 24 5afb4 Sep 6 w5 7:56 ph 1 S root 87 1 3 49 20 db 15: 6 1ff3c Sep 6 w4 14:35 smgr 1 S root 90 1 3 49 35 ab 2: 3 70900 Sep 6 con 0:48 sysync 1 S root 8393 92 3 27 20 1cd 30: 1 5b004 Sep 13 w6 0:14 ksh 1 Z root 9706 1 80 61 20 <defunct> 1 Z root 9713 1 80 61 20 <defunct> 1 Z root 9881 1 74 61 20 <defunct> 1 Z uucp 9703 1 20 65 20 <defunct> 1 S root 5845 92 3 27 20 1f9 33: 0 5b0a4 Sep 10 w8 0:22 ksh 1 Z uucp 9710 1 34 68 20 <defunct> 1 Z root 9816 1 77 61 20 <defunct> 1 Z uucp 9717 1 36 69 20 <defunct> 1 Z root 9768 1 65 60 20 <defunct> 1 Z root 9853 1 78 61 20 <defunct> 1 Z root 9888 1 81 61 20 <defunct> 1 Z uucp 9772 1 22 65 20 <defunct> 1 Z uucp 9820 1 23 65 20 <defunct> 1 Z root 9895 1 81 61 20 <defunct> 1 Z uucp 9857 1 25 66 20 <defunct> 1 Z uucp 9885 1 19 64 20 <defunct> 1 Z root 9902 1 81 61 20 <defunct> 1 Z uucp 9892 1 28 67 20 <defunct> 1 Z root 9909 1 81 61 20 <defunct> 1 Z uucp 9899 1 31 67 20 <defunct> 1 Z root 9916 1 81 61 20 <defunct> 1 Z uucp 9906 1 27 66 20 <defunct> -- -- Paul Kirkaas kirkaas@cs.ucla.edu