Messages in this thread | | | From | Paul Slootman <> | Subject | Re: is killing zombies possible w/o a reboot? | Date | Thu, 4 Nov 2004 14:23:12 +0000 (UTC) |
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DervishD <lkml@dervishd.net> wrote: > > If init is the parent, all works ok, just wait a bit and all >those zombies will really die ;)
I recently had a system with serial console where some some reason the serial port was stopped. This meant that init blocked while writing some message (e.g. "respawning too rapidly"), and that meant it stopped reaping those zombie processes. The list of these zombie processes with PPID == 1 was amazing. The only thing that helped was rebooting after replacing the serial console cable.
(Kernel 2.4.25, sysvinit 2.85 in case you're wondering.)
Paul Slootman
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