James Knott wrote:
Ricardo Chung wrote:
Your system shows 2 zombie process you may kill to improve performance. And you could check what application is leaving those zombie (cpu cycles and resources stealing) processes behind.
My understanding was that zombies use virtually no resources and eventually die on their own.
Yes. He used the wrong terminology What Ricardo called "zombie processes" are actually runaway processes. Zombie processes are those which have finished executing, but still have process table entries, because the parent process has not called wait(2) or any other system call which would collect up the zombie's exit code. Until the exit code is collected, the process continues to fill a slot in the process table (but consumes NO other resources, not even core memory). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org