On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 04:43, Dr. Werner Fink wrote: > 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) pretty sure you are correct. i dont believe the kernel currently supports forcibly reparenting of non-child processes. -mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
