Phillip Susi wrote, On 05/05/11 21:52:
On 5/5/2011 4:44 PM, Jon Grant wrote:
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.
My guess is that what you saw were numerous processes being spawned by a
run away program, dieing, and momentarily being defunct before init got
around to reaping them.
That sounds like a good explanation.
It was quite easy to reproduce BTW. in Ubuntu running Gnome (previous
release) simply open Transmission bittorrent client (or even ktorrent),
while downloading a torrent. Kill the window if using Metacity, then
look at "top" output.
Best regards, Jon
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