[Novalug] desktop hang ups

Ed James edjames@greenbelt.com
Wed Mar 11 17:28:57 EDT 2009


My mother ship has launched self-destruct probes to gather
info and report the data back to the mother ship.  The
probes have done their job and are now idle.  But the
mother ship hasn't yet requested the report, so the
probes are now zombies.  Eventually, mother will gather
the info and the zombies will self destruct.

Ed James

Quoting "Bonnie Dalzell" <bdalzell@qis.net>:

> here is a report from the top of top
>
> top - 16:04:40 up  1:58,  3 users,  load average: 0.29, 0.24, 0.25
> Tasks: 121 total,   2 running, 117 sleeping,   0 stopped,   2 zombie
> Cpu(s): 17.2%us,  1.7%sy,  0.0%ni, 80.5%id,  0.0%wa,  0.3%hi,  0.3%si,
> 0.0%st
> Mem:   1035360k total,   737412k used,   297948k free,    14432k buffers
> Swap:  7197080k total,        0k used,  7197080k free,   395120k cached
> Change delay from 3.0 to:
>
>
> what are zombie tasks?
>
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