From: liesche@byron.u.washington.edu (Jochen Liesche) Subject: Re: Another question... Date: 28 Jan 1993 08:18:33 GMT
In article <1k6b3nINNs83@rave.larc.nasa.gov> jcburt@gatsibm.larc.nasa.gov () writes:
>Oops...I forgot to ask in my previous post...
>I just noticed that I have a *bunch* of zombie portmap
>processes when I do a ps aux...what I get is:
>USER PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TT STAT START TIME COMMAND
>root 1 0.0 2.7 44 200 ? S 18:34 0:00 init
>root 54 0.0 0.0 76 0 ? Z 18:34 0:00 (portmap) <zombie>
>root 103 0.0 0.0 76 0 ? Z 09:54 0:00 (portmap) <zombie>
>-more
>
>any idea whats going on ? How do I get rid of these zombie
>processes ?
>
I can't help you with the cause, but the only way to get rid of zombies(you can't kill them(they're already dead)) is to kill the parent process. The ownership of the zombies goes to init(PID 1), which immediately reclaims them. So, if you start running into max process problems, you can do that(if possible).
Sorry I'm not of more help.