[plug] Killing resident zombies and other undesirables

[Bill Kenworthy]

ahh, been there, done that - the parent in most cases is Init or process
1.  My understanding is that most modern kernels (or is it just
mandrake) do an automatic reap of zombies at some point when their
parent is 1.  The cause of this problem was a display crash, so when the
parent exited, init inherited them, but for some reason thay are still
active and even doing a "kill -9 1" fails too(probably self
protection!)  So the question remains, Ive tried the usual things but
still collecting undesirables.

for example:
[root at Ralph wdk]# ps -axlw|grep soff
000   501 25569     1   0   0 49876    0 down_f DW   ?          0:00
[soffice.bin]
000   501   365     1   0   0 99156 32648 down_f D   ?          1:25
/opt/office52/program/soffice.bin
444   501   387   365   0   0     0    0 do_exi Z    ?          0:00
[soffice.bin <defunct>]
040   501   388     1   0   0 99156 32648 down_f D   ?          0:00
/opt/office52/program/soffice.bin
040   501   389     1   0   0 99156 32648 down_f D   ?          0:00
/opt/office52/program/soffice.bin
040   501   390     1   0   0 99156 32648 down_f D   ?          0:00
/opt/office52/program/soffice.bin
040   501   391     1   0   0 99156 32648 down_f D   ?          0:00
/opt/office52/program/soffice.bin
040   501   393     1   0   0 99156 32648 down_f D   ?          0:00
/opt/office52/program/soffice.bin
000   501  8610  7477   0   0 49876 19800 down_f D   ?          0:04
/opt/office52/program/soffice.bin
100     0  8743  8675   2   0  1312  524 pipe_r S    pts/4      0:00
grep soff
[root at Ralph wdk]

oh well, another reboot, and Ive just got to 24 days uptime for the
first time!  This is not the first time staroffice has done this to me. 
Ive just collected some more unkillables on zebedee, also parent of 1,
so I presume something internel is deeply ill ...

BillK


Matt Kemner wrote:
> 
> Killing Zombies?
> Why, what have we ever done to you? *grin*
>