Messages in this thread | | | From | Gene Heskett <> | Subject | Re: is killing zombies possible w/o a reboot? | Date | Wed, 3 Nov 2004 15:18:50 -0500 |
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On Wednesday 03 November 2004 14:26, DervishD wrote: > Hi Gene :) > > * Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net> dixit: >> > Then the children are reparented to 'init' and 'init' gets >> > rid of them. That's the way UNIX behaves. >> >> Unforch, I've *never* had it work that way. Any dead process I've >> ever had while running linux has only been disposable by a reboot. > > Well, you know, shit happens... Anyway, could you define 'dead'? >Because if you're talking about zombies whose parent dies, they're >killable easily: just wait until init reaps them (usually in less >than 5 minutes since they dead). If you are talking about zombies > who has their parent alive, then it's a bug in the application, not > the kernel. In fact I wouldn't like if the kernel reaps my children > before I do, just in case I want to do something. > > If you're talking about unkillable processes (those stuck in >disk-sleep state), you're right: only rebooting can kill them >(although sometimes they go out of D state and die normally). Bad >luck for you if any dead process you've ever had while running linux >has been of this kind :( > > Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado
That seems to be the only kind of dead processes I get, and thats not too often. Booted to 2.6.10-rc1-bk11 now, its all working just fine except for on messydos patch that finally must have made it into the tree.
As it appears I do not have a prayer of convincing folks otherwise about this issue, I suggest we let this thread die a well deserved death till it bites me or someone else again. I'll summerize that os9/nitros9 handles this situation effortlessly and flawlessly, and I expected a 150x more sophisticated os to do likewise. My mistake. OTOH, its one hell of a versatile os IMNSHO. I'm not going away just because it bites me occasionally.
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