zombie processes

[Simon 'corecode' Schubert]

On Wednesday, 12. January 2005 20:49, Rumko wrote:
> 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.

rumko said that the ppid of all those zombies == 1. so init doesn't reap them. 
strange.

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