From: DervishD <lkml@dervishd.net>
To: Paul Slootman <paul+nospam@wurtel.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: is killing zombies possible w/o a reboot?
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 19:24:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041104182444.GC24522@DervishD> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cmde0g$l20$1@news.cistron.nl>
Hi Paul :)
* Paul Slootman <paul+nospam@wurtel.net> dixit:
> > If init is the parent, all works ok, just wait a bit and all
> >those zombies will really die ;)
> I recently had a system with serial console where some some reason the
> serial port was stopped. This meant that init blocked while writing some
> message (e.g. "respawning too rapidly"), and that meant it stopped
> reaping those zombie processes. The list of these zombie processes with
> PPID == 1 was amazing. The only thing that helped was rebooting after
> replacing the serial console cable.
It looks like a bug in sysvinit: it shouldn't print anything on
the console but use syslog and specify that the console NEVER shall
be used to print anything even when there is no syslogd running. I'll
make sure that it doesn't happen in my VCinit.
Thanks for the information :)
Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado
--
Linux Registered User 88736
http://www.dervishd.net & http://www.pleyades.net/
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2004-11-03 12:51 is killing zombies possible w/o a reboot? Gene Heskett
2004-11-03 14:33 ` bert hubert
2004-11-03 14:49 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-11-03 15:25 ` DervishD
2004-11-03 15:25 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-11-03 17:49 ` DervishD
2004-11-03 16:47 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-03 17:44 ` DervishD
2004-11-03 18:53 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-03 19:01 ` Doug McNaught
2004-11-03 19:03 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-11-03 19:24 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-03 19:33 ` Doug McNaught
2004-11-03 19:34 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-11-03 19:06 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-11-03 19:26 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-03 19:33 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-11-03 20:09 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-04 19:24 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-11-03 19:42 ` DervishD
2004-11-03 23:12 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-11-04 10:26 ` DervishD
2004-11-04 14:23 ` Paul Slootman
2004-11-04 14:56 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-04 18:24 ` DervishD [this message]
2004-11-04 19:22 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-11-04 20:53 ` DervishD
2004-11-03 19:26 ` DervishD
2004-11-03 20:18 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-03 22:15 ` Jim Nelson
2004-11-03 22:44 ` Russell Miller
2004-11-03 23:03 ` Doug McNaught
2004-11-03 23:33 ` Russell Miller
2004-11-03 23:47 ` Mathieu Segaud
2004-11-03 23:56 ` Russell Miller
2004-11-04 0:05 ` Mathieu Segaud
2004-11-04 6:39 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-11-05 2:38 ` Elladan
2004-11-05 3:10 ` Tim Connors
2004-11-05 3:17 ` Russell Miller
2004-11-05 4:38 ` Elladan
2004-11-05 5:00 ` Kyle Moffett
2004-11-04 20:06 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-11-03 23:06 ` vlobanov
2004-11-04 10:04 ` Helge Hafting
2004-11-04 17:16 ` Alex Bennee
2004-11-04 16:30 ` Pedro Venda (SYSADM)
2004-11-04 22:28 ` Helge Hafting
2004-11-03 23:07 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-11-04 1:19 ` Michael Clark
2004-11-04 16:01 ` kernel
2004-11-04 16:18 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-04 16:47 ` kernel
2004-11-04 17:58 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-03 22:58 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-11-04 10:23 ` DervishD
2004-11-04 19:32 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-11-04 21:11 ` DervishD
2004-11-09 23:31 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-11-10 9:11 ` DervishD
2004-11-03 23:18 ` Adam Heath
2004-11-03 16:38 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-03 16:24 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-03 16:46 ` linux-os
2004-11-03 19:12 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-03 19:56 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-11-03 20:13 ` Helge Hafting
2004-11-03 20:40 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-04 0:43 ` Kurt Wall
2004-11-04 1:01 ` Russell Miller
2004-11-04 1:38 ` Doug McNaught
2004-11-04 1:45 ` Russell Miller
2004-11-04 1:56 ` Doug McNaught
2004-11-04 1:59 ` Mitchell Blank Jr
2004-11-04 20:10 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-11-04 10:07 ` Matthias Andree
2004-11-04 22:31 ` Peter Chubb
2004-11-04 23:33 ` Benno
2004-11-03 20:48 ` Tom Felker
2004-11-03 21:08 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-04 7:19 ` Jan Knutar
2004-11-04 11:57 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-04 12:12 ` Jan Knutar
2004-11-04 12:18 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-04 12:29 ` Jan Knutar
2004-11-04 13:56 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-04 12:39 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-04 13:01 ` Ian Campbell
2004-11-04 14:07 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-04 14:24 ` Ian Campbell
2004-11-04 15:10 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-04 14:26 ` DervishD
2004-11-04 15:13 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-04 13:10 ` Doug McNaught
2004-11-04 14:11 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-04 14:42 ` tlaurent
2004-11-04 15:14 ` Gene Heskett
2004-11-04 20:18 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-11-05 0:29 ` Gene Heskett
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