[mythtv-users] Zombie process
Robin Hill
myth at robinhill.me.uk
Fri Apr 27 13:37:58 UTC 2007
On Fri Apr 27, 2007 at 11:17:36PM +1000, Phill Edwards wrote:
> Every time I tun top I see there's a zombie process. This cut & paste
> was taken immediately after a reboot:
>
> Tasks: 97 total, 3 running, 92 sleeping, 0 stopped, 2 zombie
> Cpu(s): 2.7% us, 2.7% sy, 0.0% ni, 78.7% id, 14.7% wa, 0.0% hi, 1.3% si,
> Mem: 255780k total, 251692k used, 4088k free, 784k buffers
> Swap: 522104k total, 88148k used, 433956k free, 55092k cached
>
> How can I track down what's zombie-fied because I presume it's not a good thing?
>
It's not usually good, no. You can track it down using ps - "ps aux"
will list all processes - the STAT column gives the process status, a Z
indicates a zombie process.
HTH,
Robin
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