Hello Mike On 5 May 2011 10:00, Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Âi dont believe the kernel currently > supports forcibly reparenting of non-child processes. Do you think there is enough of an itch, for someone to scratch? Best regards, Jon -- 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
