On Thursday 02 March 2006 11:05 pm, you wrote:
> I agree, typically, zombie processes just take up a space in the process
> table, and that's it.
>
> The fact that this process is eating an entire CPU and using up memory
> would make me think that it's more of a run away than a zombie. Have
> you tried killing the process before the server crash to see if that
> frees up the resources?

Yes, before the previous crash I have tried with kill and kill -9. Nothing
happened.

The next time it shows up I'll try with kill -SIGCHLD

It's listed as zombie by "top".

PID USER    PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM   TIME+ COMMAND
20337 oracle   16  0   0   0   0 Z 99.8 0.0 86:49.32 f90webm <defunct>


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