On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 09:04, Jon Grant wrote: > On 5 May 2011 10:00, Mike Frysinger 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. i 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? i'm not itchy ;) -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
