Fiire Engine - linuxmce 0704- update version 4 -
Linux version 2.6.20-15-generic (root@palmer) (gcc version 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)) #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 (Ubuntu 2.6.20-15.27-generic)
uname -a
Linux dcerouter 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
Yes. I know that zombies/defunct processes don't take up much resources, but parents should NOT exit without terminating their children and cleaning up the environment.
NOTE: - This seems to happen after burning DVD's, even though the burning process is successful with the appropriate finished messages.
As I have been unable to kill or remove this dead processes I reboot daily. They occur on a regular basis. ie..
uptime
23:18:37 up 3:25, 0 users, load average: 2.96, 2.84, 2.45
Yes, only 3 minutes and 25 seconds yet:-
Tasks: 254 total, 3 running, 234 sleeping, 0 stopped, 17 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.7%us, 4.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 40.3%id, 53.6%wa, 0.7%hi, 0.5%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 904604k total, 895200k used, 9404k free, 101756k buffers
Swap: 1953588k total, 34148k used, 1919440k free, 265384k cached
Yep, 17 zombies in only 3 minutes and 25 seconds.
ps waux | grep defunct
root 3471 0.0 0.0 0 0 pts/22 Z 22:12 0:00 [start-stop-daem] <defunct>
root 3472 0.0 0.0 0 0 pts/22 Z 22:12 0:00 [nbd-server] <defunct>
root 8881 0.0 0.0 2884 768 pts/26 R+ 23:15 0:00 grep defunct
root 14662 0.0 0.0 0 0 pts/22 Z 22:19 0:00 [start-stop-daem] <defunct>
root 14664 0.0 0.0 0 0 pts/22 Z 22:19 0:00 [nbd-server] <defunct>
root 16186 0.0 0.0 0 0 pts/22 Z 19:55 0:00 [nbd-server] <defunct>
root 19445 0.0 0.0 0 0 pts/22 Z 21:44 0:00 [start-stop-daem] <defunct>
root 19446 0.0 0.0 0 0 pts/22 Z 21:44 0:00 [nbd-server] <defunct>
root 21102 0.0 0.0 0 0 pts/22 Z 22:02 0:00 [start-stop-daem] <defunct>
root 21103 0.0 0.0 0 0 pts/22 Z 22:02 0:00 [start-stop-daem] <defunct>
root 23357 0.0 0.0 0 0 pts/22 Z 23:04 0:00 [start-stop-daem] <defunct>
root 23358 0.0 0.0 0 0 pts/22 Z 23:04 0:00 [start-stop-daem] <defunct>
root 24712 0.0 0.0 0 0 pts/22 Z 23:05 0:00 [start-stop-daem] <defunct>
root 26534 0.0 0.0 0 0 pts/22 Z 23:05 0:00 [nbd-server] <defunct>
root 30478 0.0 0.0 0 0 pts/22 Z 22:30 0:00 [start-stop-daem] <defunct>
root 30479 0.0 0.0 0 0 pts/22 Z 22:30 0:00 [start-stop-daem] <defunct>
root 31177 0.0 0.0 0 0 pts/22 Z 22:49 0:00 [start-stop-daem] <defunct>
root 31178 0.0 0.0 0 0 pts/22 Z 22:49 0:00 [nbd-server] <defunct>
