zombie processes

[Rumko]

On 2005-01-12, Jeroen <koffieyahoo at xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "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
>
>
im sure ... the zombie processes are, multiple (esd), multiple (sendmail), 
multiple (kclock.kss), multiple (sh), etc.