On 15:15 12 Jul 2004, Nitin <nitinmehta@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | I'm really very confused about the problem. Since the last time I installed fr | esh RedHat 7.2 on my web server, following processes are continuously added to t | he list of processes. | | 15306 ? S 0:00 CROND | 15475 ? T 0:00 awk -v progname=/etc/cron.daily/00webalizer progname | 15476 ? Z 0:00 [awk <defunct>] | 15608 ? T 0:00 /bin/awk | 15612 ? Z 0:00 [awk <defunct>] [...] Ok, all the Z processes are zombies, the husk of an exited process which has not yet been wait()ed for. Their parents seem to be the awk processes in T state. T means stopped, and that's very odd (but also a complete explaination of why the zombie is still hanging around). Pick one of the processes (eg 15476) from the list above and go: lsof -p 15476 See what it has open. Normally a process becomes stopped in only two ways: it is stopped with the SIGSTOP signal (sent by hand by someone) or stopped as a result of job control. I don't suppose you started cron by hand from a terminal did you? Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Undulations 12:3: "For I have seen the face of God, and He is in Turn 10...." - Ix -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
