On Thursday 25 April 2024 22:37:44 deloptes via tde-users wrote: > William Morder via tde-users wrote: > > That is just a kind of "ghost" (so to speak), traces of a process that is > > no longer actually running. > > In my case the parent firefox process was still running. The child process > was killed because of "high quality" developers of web pages are producing > such content that overloads the system and oom killer kicks in. The stupid > thing is, it causes the PC to consume also more power untill it decides to > die or be killed. > In my own case, recent developments have provided some new information. Last night I went to sleep and forgot to take the machine offline, and in the morning, I found that I had been disconnected. Internet here has again been iffy, off and on, but sometimes I get knocked offline for unknown reasons. Now that I think about it, when I do have crowds of zombies, it usually seems to happen when I have gone offline, or been knocked offline, rather than shutting down certain internet programs, notably tor and privoxy. (I use tork-trinity to manage my proxies.) I had to restart my proxy, then I used iwconfig and ifconfig to restart my connection. I noticed that top showed 17 zombies. So I said, let's see. As one can see from the output below, most of these zombies are indeed root processes named w, whatever that means here. No (if readers are wondering), I have not yet tried to trace these PIDs to discover exactly what are these processes; but at least I know that those mysterious w processes indeed often are the zombies, and that they are owned by root. Bill ps auxwww | grep 'Z' USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1107 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Apr23 1:43 [w] <defunct> root 2471 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Apr23 2:01 [w] <defunct> <user> 3782 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Apr21 0:00 [sh] <defunct> root 4779 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Apr21 3:25 [w] <defunct> root 4863 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Apr23 1:36 [w] <defunct> root 8831 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Apr24 1:00 [w] <defunct> root 10333 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Apr24 1:30 [w] <defunct> root 10486 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Apr22 2:56 [w] <defunct> root 11969 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Apr24 1:10 [w] <defunct> root 15604 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Apr24 0:59 [w] <defunct> root 16754 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Apr22 2:22 [w] <defunct> root 17309 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Apr22 2:14 [w] <defunct> root 21189 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Apr24 1:03 [w] <defunct> root 21852 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Apr22 2:50 [w] <defunct> root 23849 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Apr23 2:13 [w] <defunct> <user> 27727 0.0 0.0 1606224 928 ? Ssl Apr23 0:20 clamd -c /home/<user>/klammailkIZTym root 29096 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Apr21 3:22 [w] <defunct> root 32585 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Apr25 0:35 [w] <defunct> ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
