tml@hemuli.atk.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) (07/06/89)
We are experiencing lots of zombie processes on an HP9000 Series 800 running HP-UX 3.1 (the same occurred also in 2.1 and 3.01). They are all children of remshd (rshd in BSD) processes (which have no other children). All these remshds are sleeping on selwait. We have a configuration with a bunch of Series 300 workstations running X clients on the 840. Right now, for instance, there are 25 of these zombies when the system has been up for three days, with perhaps ten active workstation users. What could be the problem? Is there any cure, except writing a perl script that scans ps now and then, and kills off remshd processes with a zombie child? -- Tor Lillqvist Technical Research Centre of Finland, Computing Services (VTT/ATK) tml@hemuli.atk.vtt.fi [130.188.52.2]