Re: Average load.

Jeff Wheeler (jwheeler@toldyouso.com)
Sun, 3 May 1998 00:42:25 -0400 (EDT) 

Zombie processes do not consume any CPU.  They are simply waiting on their
parent processes to wait() on them and get their return values.  Try
sending a SIGCHLD to the parent of said process.  You can use ps -auxf to
discover the PID of the parent process.

If you have zombies eating up CPU, I think you have serious problems,
because a zombie process has already exit()ed.

Jeff Wheeler  (JW3069)                   http://www.toldyouso.com/~jwheeler
Systems Administrator                     "Every time I've built character,
Told You So Consulting                         I've regretted it." - Calvin

On Sat, 2 May 1998, Paul Richard Komarek wrote:

> 
> I've had something like this, I'm not sure it is related to AS.  I
> sometimes get zombies from the command "top", which is run when you click
> on xload in the wharf.  Run top from either a commandline or click on
> xload, and find the line near the top that has "zombies:" on it.  See if
> you have any zombies, and if you do look for them on the list of processes
> below.  Kill them off (kill -9 to be safe) and see if your load drops.  In
> my case, I had a top zombie using almost all my cpu time.  If indeed you
> also have problems with top, let us know in case this is a pattern among
> AS users.
> 
> -Paul
> 
> On Sat, 2 May 1998, Patrick Mariescurrena wrote:
> 
> > Hi !
> > 
> > I'm using AS for quite a long time now and I've updated to AS 1.4.5
> > recently, everything works fine, but
> > I've noticed something strange; load average is over 2.2 most of the
> > time for a few days with almost
> > nothing running except AS.  However after two or three shutdowns,
> > suddenly load avg is back to almost
> > nil.
> > 
> > Today I edited my wharf file and load avg is again over 100%. Anybody
> > else has seen this ???
> > 
> > Two other minor problems: I can't use audio: errors in config:
> > AudioPath; but the path is correct!. The
> > other problem is win winlist, no error messages but no winlist either
> > accros or down.
> > 
> > Anyway, I love AS and I will keep using it in spite of these minor
> > annoyances.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance for any comments.
> > 
> > Patricio.
> > 
> > --
> > Running Red Hat 5.0 Linux
> > Windows 95/NT es un virus, mantengalo bien cerrado.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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