On 5 May 2011 21:33, Phillip Susi <psusi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 5/5/2011 9:04 AM, Jon Grant wrote: >>> >>> 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? > > I doubt it because it seems like a solution in search of a problem. Normally > init reaps any children it inherits. ÂIf you are seeing a bunch of zombie > processes owned by init, then your init seems to be buggy. Even so, zombies > don't use any cpu, and virtually no ram, so it isn't much of an issue. Hi Phillip, Perhaps what I was observing was something other than defunct process then, as the system was mostly un-usable because CPU was maxed out. Although was still indicated as defunct in "top" output. 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
