loki@NAZGUL.PHYSICS.MCGILL.CA (Loki Jorgenson Rm421) (04/22/91)
Help!
Can somebody tell me what is going on? What I should do? If there
is actually a problem or whether its just an irritating system bug which will
be "fixed in the upcoming release"?
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME COMMAND
elder 17115 17110 0 22:55:49 ttyq3 0:01 /usr/bin/ld -G 8 -g0 -nocount /usr/lib/crt1.o -count test2.o -nocount -lF77 -lI
elder 17135 1 17 0:03 <defunct>
zhang 18077 1 80 09:13:00 ttyq6 85:06 l20h1.0
shi 17500 1 1 0:01 <defunct>
loki 17465 1 61 0:01 <defunct>
zhang 17644 1 57 5:01 <defunct>
guo 17162 1 28 14:19 <defunct>
elder 17561 1 17 0:03 <defunct>
guo 17056 1 32 13:25 <defunct>
stefan 17533 1 34 0:04 <defunct>
zhang 17384 1 42 42:37 <defunct>
shi 17481 1 80 0:01 <defunct>
loki 11440 1 22 356:33 <defunct>
guo 17435 1 35 13:17 <defunct>
zhang 17212 1 31 0:05 <defunct>
shi 17491 1 12 0:02 <defunct>
zhang 17652 1 38 0:07 <defunct>
guo 18013 1 0 08:39:17 ttyq4 0:00 csh hs.x
guo 17231 1 35 20:23 <defunct>
zhang 17583 1 80 2:34 <defunct>
shi 17508 1 0 0:00 <defunct>
bruno 8514 1 57 3904:18 <defunct>
elder 17060 1 0 22:48:27 ttyq3 0:02 -csh
zhang 17808 1 80 405:09 <defunct>
elder 17078 1 0 22:49:50 ttyq3 0:01 /usr/bin/ld -G 8 -g0 -nocount /usr/lib/crt1.o -count test.o -nocount -lF77 -lI7
guo 17529 1 0 11:16 <defunct>
guo 17326 1 41 17:02 <defunct>
zhang 17347 1 26 0:11 <defunct>
zhang 17693 1 54 41:21 <defunct>
elder 17007 17006 0 22:39:08 ttyq5 0:01 -csh
zhang 17779 1 26 0:12 <defunct>
zhang 17725 1 22 0:04 <defunct>
zhang 17986 1 17 0:20 <defunct>
loki 18128 18127 2 10:15:45 ttyq2 0:02 -tcsh-5.20
guo 18018 18013 24 08:42:23 ttyq4 1:32 hs
elder 18169 1 12 0:02 <defunct>
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Montreal Quebec CANADA \_\ /_/ phone: (514) 398-7027mg@ (Mike Gigante) (04/22/91)
It is easy to track down the reason for the defunct process IF you use the -l option to ps. "ps -el" will include the parent process of the zombies. It is that parent process which is the cause - it did not "wait()" for a spawned child process. Mike