On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 12:50 +0100, Alexander Volovics wrote: > D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > > One way of finding out process relationships is to run this command in a > > very wide xterm window: > > ps laxgwf | less > > Colin Brace wrote: > > The "pstree" command will let you see the parentage of processes, > > including zombies. > > Thanks for the replies (and for waking me up). > > I have probably been reading the 'ps' manpage while sleeping and I > had completely forgotten about 'pstree'. (I also managed to miss the > option to show dependencies in "System->Administration->System Monitor"). > > The culprit in my case is 'escd' from the 'esc-1.0.0-16.fc6' package. > It spawns a 'netstat' child everytime and seems to fail to 'reap' them > when closing. > > Maybe I should report this as a "buglet"? Well, zombies aren't "buglets" they are full fledged _bugs_, in most cases indicating a severe bug/deficiency a program is suffering from. Ralf
