On Monday 06 March 2006 14:48, Martin Klier wrote:
> Hi Silviu,
>
> Am Montag 06 März 2006 13:23 schrieb Silviu Marin-Caea:
> > 32001
>
> this might be the PID of the child process that does not exist any more.
> Mh, how long does this state persist? Hours? Days?

1-2 hours then the buffers go low and the server starts swapping so hard it's
useless. Reboot is the only option.

> In worst case, you won't have a chance to get rid of it without booting the
> node. As I have explained earlier, a kill signal to a zombie is senseless.
> A zombie has already received a signal, otherwise it would be a normal
> process.

I tried sending a -SIGCHLD to the parent of this zombie (a java process).
That didn't help. Then, after restarting the java process, the zombie became
child of init. And init could not clean the zombie either.


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