That was interesting...I have to remember that...
ps auxwwf (the answer to WTF) ;-)
I was able to kill them off at the top
Thanks
root 1555 0.0 0.4 11424 8416 ? S 13:38 0:04
\_ /usr/bin/X11/X -s off -dpms -v -nolock -fp /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc -
logfile /etc/rhgb/temp/XFree86.0.log -extension XFree86-DRI :9 vt8
root 1606 0.0 0.0 2504 588 ? S 13:39 0:00 \_
gnome-pty-helper
root 1607 0.0 0.0 3400 304 pts/0 Ss+ 13:39 0:00
\_ /sbin/change_console -f
root 2462 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 13:40 0:00 \_
[chvt] <defunct>
root 2470 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 13:40 0:00 \_
[chvt] <defunct>
Is this because I disconnected monitor and rebooted?
Craig
On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 00:34 +0100, Maciej ?enczykowski wrote:
> Use "ps auxwwf" to figure out what are the zombies parents and kill the
> parents. Whenever a process ends/dies/is killed it is turned into a
> zombie until it is 'reaped' by it's parent process (the parent process
> needs the zombie to stay around until it receives the SIGCHLD signal and
> retrieves the process exit state). If a program has children but fails to
> reap them (either because it doesn't handle SIGCHLD or reap in some other
> manner) via lack of such facility or bad design or because it froze,
> zombie processes may accumulate...
>
> Cheers,
> MaZe.
>
> On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Craig White wrote:
>
> > after booting a CentOS 4.2 system
> >
> > I have a bunch of zombies...
> >
> > root 2828 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 14:41 0:00 [chvt]
> > <defunct>
> >
> > My read from googling this is chvt stems from something that involves a
> > shell.
> >
> > They ***may*** have been created from my attempts to start mysqld which
> > isn't working (I will start another thread) but no efforts to kill them
> > off are working...
> >
> > [root@srv1 certs]# kill 2828
> > [root@srv1 certs]# kill -9 2828
> > [root@srv1 certs]# ps aux|grep 2828
> > root 2828 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 14:41 0:00 [chvt]
> > <defunct>
> >
> > How do I clean this up?
> >
> > Craig
> >
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