Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site imsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!cvl!elsie!imsvax!harris From: harris@imsvax.UUCP (Harris Reavin) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: zombie problem Message-ID: <366@imsvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 11:58:23 EDT Article-I.D.: imsvax.366 Posted: Wed Aug 7 11:58:23 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Aug-85 00:10:20 EDT Organization: IMS Inc, Rockville MD Lines: 20 (bug food) We have a problem with zombie processes that is only solved by rebooting. I would like to know if anyone has a less drastic solution. We are running BSD 4.2 on a VAX 750 and the CCI port of BSD 4.2 on a CCI Power 6. On both systems we sometimes get zombie exiting processes that are usually created when some hung process is killed. Sending -HUP to the init process restarts the getty but the zombie prevents the new login on the port. The following ps -l shows the situation. F UID PID PPID CP PRI NI ADDR SZ RSS WCHAN STAT TT TIME COMMAND 1008401 89 14797 1 0 4 0 9FD 0 0 53AFC I 11 0:031008000 0 15569 1 0 4 0 0 25 0 53AFC IW 11 0:00 - 7 (getty) 1008401 159 16740 1 0 4 0 F54 0 0 53F0C I 1b 0:01 1008000 0 28883 1 0 4 0 0 25 0 53F0C IW 1b 0:00 - 2 (getty) 1008001 0 1 0 0 5 0 624 24 6 5D300 S ? 1:19 init -- Harris Reavin UUCP: {umcp-cs!eneevax || seismo!rlgvax!elsie}!imsvax!harris