From: splee@pd.org (Seng-Poh Lee, Speedy) Subject: Re: What causes these Zombie processes? Date: 7 Jan 1993 20:27:04 GMT
Seng-Poh Lee, Speedy (splee@pd.org) wrote:
> 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
> the only way to get rid of them is with a reboot. This is a typical
> 'ps -aux' screen after a few days.
>
> USER PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TT STAT START TIME COMMAND
> root 1 0.0 3.3 32 136 ? S 23:39 0:00 init
I have identified the parent as the portmap daemon. So it appears the
NFS server is responsible for these zombies. Am eagerly awaiting
Rick's new release :-)