Processes Weirdness

From: Guido Bolognesi <guido_at_dsnet.it>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 10:24:55 +0100

Hi all,
this morning I log into one of my machines, and top reports something
like this:

load averages: 0.77, 0.85, 0.91
09:52:54
122 processes: 1211 zombie
CPU states: 29.4% user, 0.0% nice, 20.4% system, 50.1% idle
Memory: Real: 63M/493M act/tot Virtual: 71M/3895M use/tot Free: 11M

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND
   40 root -24 0 1680K 49K ??? 15:44 0.00% <update>
  915 irc -24 0 4456K 548K ??? 10:57 0.00% <ircd>
  449 root -24 0 1712K 65K ??? 5:48 0.00% <tcpserver>
20890 root -24 0 11M 90K ??? 3:33 0.00% <httpd>
 1008 oracle7 -24 0 27M 393K ??? 3:09 0.00% <oracle>
  130 root -24 0 2328K 98K ??? 2:28 0.00% <tac_plus.4.0.
  522 root -24 0 1792K 40K ??? 2:12 0.00% <snmpd>
 1073 root -24 0 3752K 0K ??? 1:54 0.00% <sshd>
  160 root -24 0 1712K 65K ??? 1:53 0.00% <syslogd>
  438 qmaild -24 0 1712K 65K ??? 1:37 0.00% <tcpserver>
 1012 oracle7 -24 0 27M 172K ??? 1:33 0.00% <oracle>
 1010 oracle7 -24 0 27M 229K ??? 1:11 0.00% <oracle>
 1046 root -24 0 3312K 442K ??? 1:08 0.00% <nsrd>
  496 root -24 -1 2480K 98K ??? 0:57 0.00% <pmgrd>
  589 root -24 0 3408K 32K ??? 0:57 0.00% <cron>


All the services were alive and kicking, even if were all reported as
defunct.
4.0D+jp3.

Any clue?
[obviously rebooting solved the problem. :)]

thanx,
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Received on Fri Jan 28 2000 - 09:25:50 NZDT

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