Re: Linux 2.6.27.13

[Jesper Krogh <jesper@krogh.cc>]

Greg KH wrote:
> We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the 2.6.27.13
> kernel.
> 
> It contains a wide range of bugfixes, and all users of the 2.6.27 kernel
> series are strongly encouraged to upgrade.
> 
> I'll also be replying to this message with a copy of the patch between
> 2.6.27.12 and 2.6.27.13
> 
> The updated 2.6.27.y git tree can be found at:
>         git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git
> and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser:
>         http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git;a=summary

This may be just noise, but recently I have begun seeing Zombie 
processes hanging on some nodes in the computescluster:

2006      2055  0.0  0.0   9144  1260 ?        Ss   07:24   0:00      \_ 
-bash /z/gridengine/default/spool/node30/job_scripts/692747
2006      2060 39.0 38.7 1696468 1573884 ?     S    07:24 160:21 
   \_ /usr/bin/perl /z/home/trunk//bin/workqueue/worker
2006      2225  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    07:29   0:00 
       \_ [sh] <defunct>

ps faux output.

Killing the parent process makes it go awasy, but this one has been 
sitting there for almost 7 hours by now, without going away, essentially 
hagning this process.

Any suggestions?
-- 
Jesper