From: Joseph T. Batt (battjt@manager.nextwork.rose-hulman.edu)
Date: 01/06/93


From: battjt@manager.nextwork.rose-hulman.edu (Joseph T. Batt)
Subject: Re: What causes these Zombie processes?
Date: 7 Jan 1993 05:06:50 GMT

In comp.os.linux article <1993Jan6.172824.11389@infodev.cam.ac.uk> you
wrote:
> In article <1798@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu>, splee@pd.org (Seng-Poh Lee,
Speedy) writes:
> |> After running for a few days, my Linux system ends up with quite a
> |> few 'Zombie' processes. I can't kill them off, even with kill -9 and
..Stuff deleted...
> Are you using olwm? I've only ever seen these zombies when running olwm,
and they
> all disappear when I leave X. How are you exiting X? Selecting Exit...
from the
> default menu under olwm cleans up all the zombies for me.
>
> --
> -- Tim Cutts /~\ ----

I have this problem too.

I am running 0.99pl2 with binaries from just about every where. I am not
running X(I have herc). I am running all of the network stuff except for
mail.

Isn't the traffic wonderful while everyone is off on break!

Joe