Zombies (defunct processes) with kernel 2.4.18
With kernel 2.4.18 (well, I noticed that I didn't have the following
problem for a while, and I was using kernel 2.4.25 at this time), I've
noticed that Mozilla and ogg123 leave zombies:
ay:~> ps -aef|grep "defunct[>]"
lefevre 1836 1663 0 02:34 pts/6 00:00:00 [ogg123] <defunct>
lefevre 2040 1663 0 02:39 pts/6 00:00:00 [ogg123] <defunct>
lefevre 2067 1420 0 02:43 tty1 00:00:00 [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
lefevre 2068 1420 0 02:43 tty1 00:00:00 [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
lefevre 2116 1420 0 02:46 tty1 00:00:00 [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
lefevre 2117 1420 0 02:46 tty1 00:00:00 [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
lefevre 2118 1420 0 02:46 tty1 00:00:00 [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
lefevre 2119 1420 0 02:46 tty1 00:00:00 [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
lefevre 2120 1420 0 02:46 tty1 00:00:00 [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
lefevre 2122 1663 0 02:47 pts/6 00:00:00 [ogg123] <defunct>
lefevre 2127 1663 0 02:48 pts/6 00:00:00 [ogg123] <defunct>
lefevre 2286 1663 0 02:49 pts/6 00:00:00 [ogg123] <defunct>
lefevre 2294 1420 0 02:50 tty1 00:00:00 [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
lefevre 2295 1420 0 02:50 tty1 00:00:00 [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
lefevre 2299 1663 0 02:51 pts/6 00:00:01 [ogg123] <defunct>
lefevre 2320 1420 0 02:57 tty1 00:00:00 [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
lefevre 2321 1420 0 02:57 tty1 00:00:00 [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
lefevre 2481 1420 0 03:01 tty1 00:00:00 [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
lefevre 2482 1420 0 03:01 tty1 00:00:00 [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
lefevre 2512 1420 0 03:05 tty1 00:00:00 [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
I'm using ogg123 with several ogg files as arguments, and a zombie
appears each time ogg123 finishes playing a file. Concerning Mozilla,
I've never managed to know when zombies appear, but after several
days, I usually have hundreds of zombies.
Did anyone else notice the same problem?
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