[GoLUG] *** Was: Linux Campfire Tales and now is a small Zombie Apocalypse of the process table

[David Billsbrough]

All,

Was: Linux Campfire Tales

Now: A small Zombie Apocalypse of the Process Table

Now to get back to the joy of reaping zombies, if you missed the
last "April" GoLug's Jitsi session on the Internet near you.

... quoting (rb):

> I'm curious how you (Steve) dealt with the zombie processes - were you
> able to clear those up without rebooting?

I would like a follow-up on this topic also ... I am running 'monit'
as a process monitor utility and a sample script I created becomes
a zombie after the event it is monitoring completes and then
'hangs-outs' in the process table forever until a cold reboot.

My understanding is that parent process runs and creates a child
process and then at some point in the future termintates and then
the child process has no one to return its final exit code to return
to whom spawned it.   ... or something like that!!

regards,

David
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David Billsbrough -- Amateur Radio Callsign: KC4ZVW
Chuluota, Florida * grid square: EL98kp * https://www.kc4zvw.us/

-----Original Message-----
 
From: Ron / BCLUG <admin at bclug.ca>
Sent: Apr 5, 2024 1:23 PM
To: <golug at golug.org>
Subject: Re: [GoLUG] Linux Campfire Tales at GoLUG, 4/3/2024

Steve Litt wrote on 2024-04-02 19:37:

> GoLUG meeting

I'm curious how you (Steve) dealt with the zombie processes - were you able to clear those up without rebooting?

Also, it seems the menu system was the source of the problem (if I recall from a glance at your `ps` output).

Have you investigated how it's spawning the applications? I think there could be something in there that's the root of
the zombie apocalypse.

rb