harris@imsvax.UUCP (Harris Reavin) (08/07/85)
(bug food)
We have a problem with zombie processes that is only solved by
rebooting. I would like to know if anyone has a less drastic solution.
We are running BSD 4.2 on a VAX 750 and the CCI port of BSD 4.2 on a
CCI Power 6. On both systems we sometimes get zombie exiting processes
that are usually created when some hung process is killed. Sending
-HUP to the init process restarts the getty but the zombie prevents the
new login on the port. The following ps -l shows the situation.
F UID PID PPID CP PRI NI ADDR SZ RSS WCHAN STAT TT TIME COMMAND
1008401 89 14797 1 0 4 0 9FD 0 0 53AFC I 11 0:03 <exiting>
1008000 0 15569 1 0 4 0 0 25 0 53AFC IW 11 0:00 - 7 (getty)
1008401 159 16740 1 0 4 0 F54 0 0 53F0C I 1b 0:01 <exiting>
1008000 0 28883 1 0 4 0 0 25 0 53F0C IW 1b 0:00 - 2 (getty)
1008001 0 1 0 0 5 0 624 24 6 5D300 S ? 1:19 init
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Harris Reavin
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