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On Monday 07 May 2007, Marek Miller wrote: |
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> When I run firefox 2.0.0.3 on my x86 laptop, the ps -eHF command |
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> produces following output: |
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> UID PID PPID C SZ RSS PSR STIME TTY TIME CMD |
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> ... |
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> ... |
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> marek 5788 5765 12 50526 73088 0 09:02 ? 00:13:42 |
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> /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin |
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> marek 5869 5788 0 0 0 0 09:02 ? |
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> 00:00:00 [netstat] <defunct> |
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> Firefox is a parent of defunct netstat process. Of course, when I |
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> close firefox, the zombie disappears too. |
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> Could someone explain me how to get rid of it? |
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Two things: |
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1. Please don't hijack threads. It's very rude. |
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2. You can't get rid of zombies. They are unkillable, hence the name. A |
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zombie is a process whose immediate parent died without cleaning up |
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it's children's PIDs. They end up being attached to the another parent |
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further up the chain, end consume no resources except taking up one |
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PID. There's a kernel thread that runs every 5 minutes or so sweeping |
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them out of the way. So you can ignore zombies. |
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The above might be wrong, it's been a while since I verified it for |
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myself; so I paraphrased the Red Hat 4 training materials. That is for |
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2.6.9, it might be different these days in mainline kernels |
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alan |
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Optimists say the glass is half full, |
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Pessimists say the glass is half empty, |
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Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za |
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+27 82, double three seven, one nine three five |
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