[plug] Processor Memory Usage

[Bernd Felsche]

On Sunday 29 August 2004 16:18, James Devenish wrote:
> In message <41321898.2050009 at tigris.org>
>
> on Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 01:55:36PM -0400, Tim White wrote:
> > What I thought was a swap memory problem was
> > caused by a zombied process.
>
> Taken at face value, that's actually quite remarkable, because zombie
> processes normally occupy zero bytes of memory (by definition).

By definition, they require a few bytes to store the information to
pass to the parent that subsequently waits on it.

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