From: jcburt@gatsibm.larc.nasa.gov ()
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Another question...
Date: 27 Jan 1993 15:52:23 GMT
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center
Distribution: world
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Oops...I forgot to ask in my previous post...
I just noticed that I have a *bunch* of zombie portmap
processes when I do a ps aux...what I get is:
USER        PID %CPU %MEM SIZE  RSS TT STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root          1  0.0  2.7   44  200 ?  S    18:34   0:00 init
root         54  0.0  0.0   76    0 ?  Z    18:34   0:00 (portmap) <zombie>
jcburt       46  0.0  0.0  392    0 a1 S    18:34   0:01 (tcsh)
root          4  0.0  0.5    2   40 ?  S    18:34   0:16 /etc/update
root          6  0.0  0.5    2   40 ?  S    18:34   0:16 /etc/update
root         47  0.0  0.0   48    0 a2 S    18:34   0:00 (getty)
root         48  0.0  0.0   48    0 a3 S    18:34   0:00 (getty)
root         49  0.0  0.0   48    0 a4 S    18:34   0:00 (getty)
root         31  0.0  1.3   56   96 ?  S    18:34   0:00 /usr/etc/inet/portmap
root         35  0.0  0.8   48   60 ?  S    18:34   0:00 /usr/etc/inet/inetd
root         39  0.0  0.0   96    0 ?  S    18:34   0:00 (nfsd)
root         43  0.0  1.9   68  144 ?  S    18:34   0:00 /usr/etc/inet/mountd
root         50  0.0  2.0   48  148 a5 S    18:34   0:00 /bin/getty 9600 tty5
root         51  0.0  2.5   48  184 a6 S    18:34   0:00 /bin/getty 9600 tty6
root         55  0.0  0.0   76    0 ?  Z    18:36   0:00 (portmap) <zombie>
root         56  0.0  0.0   76    0 ?  Z    18:36   0:00 (portmap) <zombie>
root         57  0.0  0.0   76    0 ?  Z    18:37   0:00 (portmap) <zombie>
root         58  0.0  0.0   76    0 ?  Z    18:38   0:00 (portmap) <zombie>
root         59  0.0  0.0   76    0 ?  Z    18:38   0:00 (portmap) <zombie>
root         60  0.0  0.0   76    0 ?  Z    18:39   0:00 (portmap) <zombie>
root         61  0.0  0.0   76    0 ?  Z    18:39   0:00 (portmap) <zombie>
root         62  0.0  0.0   76    0 ?  Z    18:39   0:00 (portmap) <zombie>
root         63  0.0  0.0   76    0 ?  Z    18:49   0:00 (portmap) <zombie>
root         64  0.0  0.0   76    0 ?  Z    18:53   0:00 (portmap) <zombie>
root         65  0.0  0.0   76    0 ?  Z    18:59   0:00 (portmap) <zombie>
root         66  0.0  0.0   76    0 ?  Z    19:05   0:00 (portmap) <zombie>
root         67  0.0  0.0   76    0 ?  Z    07:55   0:00 (portmap) <zombie>
jcburt       68  0.0  4.6  268  336 a1 S    07:57   0:00 sh /usr/bin/X11/startx
jcburt       69  0.0  3.0   52  220 a1 S    07:57   0:00 xinit /home/jcburt/.x
root         70  0.9 16.6 1196 1204 a1 S    07:57   1:34 X
jcburt       71  0.0 11.2  436  816 a1 S    07:57   0:01 twm
jcburt       78  0.0  0.0   72    0 a1 Z    07:57   0:00 (oclock) <zombie>
jcburt       79  0.0  8.5   84  620 a1 S    07:57   0:00 xbiff -geometry -03+1
root         80  0.3 10.7  232  776 a1 S    07:57   0:31 xterm -geometry 85x39
root         81  0.0  9.9  216  724 a1 S    07:57   0:00 xterm -geometry 85x5+
jcburt       82  0.0  6.6  396  480 p1 S    07:57   0:01 -tcsh
jcburt       83  0.0  6.7  398  492 p0 S    07:57   0:00 -tcsh
jcburt       84  0.4  3.7   96  272 p0 S    07:58   0:42 telnet gatsibm
root         85  0.0  0.0   76    0 ?  Z    08:12   0:00 (portmap) <zombie>
root         86  0.0  0.0   76    0 ?  Z    08:21   0:00 (portmap) <zombie>
root         87  0.0  0.0   76    0 ?  Z    08:25   0:00 (portmap) <zombie>
root         88  0.0  0.0   76    0 ?  Z    08:27   0:00 (portmap) <zombie>
jcburt       91  0.0  6.8  400  496 p2 S    08:46   0:01 -tcsh
root         90  0.0 11.5  288  836 a1 S    08:46   0:00 xterm -title LOCAL -n
root         95  0.0  0.0   76    0 ?  Z    09:04   0:00 (portmap) <zombie>
root         96  0.0  0.0   76    0 ?  Z    09:07   0:00 (portmap) <zombie>
root         97  0.0  0.0   76    0 ?  Z    09:15   0:00 (portmap) <zombie>
root         98  0.0  0.0   76    0 ?  Z    09:17   0:00 (portmap) <zombie>
root         99  0.0  0.0   76    0 ?  Z    09:21   0:00 (portmap) <zombie>
root        100  0.0  0.0   76    0 ?  Z    09:29   0:00 (portmap) <zombie>
root        101  0.0  0.0   76    0 ?  Z    09:38   0:00 (portmap) <zombie>
root        102  0.0  0.0   76    0 ?  Z    09:38   0:00 (portmap) <zombie>
root        103  0.0  0.0   76    0 ?  Z    09:54   0:00 (portmap) <zombie>
-more

any idea whats going on ? How do I get rid of these zombie 
processes ?

Oh, the particulars..
linux0.99.4, SLS that was on tsx-11.mit.edu as of 1/22/93,
gateway 486DX/33, X8514....

John Burton
jcburt@gatsibm.larc.nasa.gov



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