Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Oct 1999 21:33:49 +1000 (EST) | From | Damien Miller <> | Subject | Re: SMP kernel on uniprocessor system? |
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On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 08:40:38PM +0000, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Only if you're running uniprocessor on an SMP motherboard. > > Last time I tried this (2.1.9x or so), all my processes went zombie. > I bought a new pair of processors shortly afterwards, so I haven't > tried it since. Does anyone actually test that this works or is it > merely assumed?
I had the a similar problem around the same time. Any process that reaped its children with wait4 would create loads of zombies with PPID 0.
Regards, Damien Miller
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