zombie processes

[Jeroen]

"Rumko" <rumcic at xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2005-01-09, Rumko <rumcic at xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Currently after a day of uptime I have 41 zombies and am 
>> running -current.
>> Since as far as I know zombies are bad, I decided to say something about 
>> them.
>>:)
> ok, now i have 206 zombies and 4 days of uptime ... kill -HUP 1 does not 
> reap
> the zombies ... is this a bug or what? and what can i do to help find it?

Are you sure you aren't running a long running process which spawns child 
processes
but does not properly wait() for them to terminate?

Jeroen