[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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