Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!phil@RICE.ARPA From: phil@RICE.ARPA (William LeFebvre) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: killing zombies Message-ID: <640@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 15:21:51 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.640 Posted: Mon Aug 12 15:21:51 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 03:04:26 EDT Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 23 We have also had the zombie process problem in the past. And, like most other sites, we have not found a cure-all way of getting rid of the culprits. We have found a method that sometimes works (or used to work---it's been awhile since I have seen it work). It was noted that some of the zombies are only waiting for their output queues to drain before going away. So, we would turn on the LFLUSHO bit by typing "stty flusho >/dev/ttyXX &". Be *SURE* to put it in the background! Because if the command does not succeed, you will have another zombie process. This would work sometimes, but not always. What we would usually do is try that method, and if it didn't work, wait until a sufficient number of them accumulated (or until a rather inactive time of the day) and just reboot the machine. It is a *very* annoying terminal driver bug---one that I wish would be permanently eradicated! William LeFebvre Department of Computer Science Rice Universityor, for the daring: