On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 17:06, Jon Grant wrote: > 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. sounds like a bug ripe for ubuntu's launchpad. you've got quite a bit of ubuntu-patched software running. -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
