On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 09:39:37PM +0100, Jon Grant wrote:
>
> This is my understanding too. as "init" is its parent process
> (perhaps it was orphaned), that must have not been waiting on it
> correctly. The high load 93-100% made the system un-usable, which
> made me wonder if it was still running, or if the parent process was
> stuck checking for it to finish.
>
> BTW, Solaris does have "preap - force a defunct process to be reaped
> by its parent" command.
This would require kernel support (IMHO)
Werner
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