Is Mint 11 zombie prone for you?

galen · 09-22-2011, 11:56 AM

I've correctly installed LM11 on two machines and I'm seeing loads of zombies in the task manager. I close an app and it leaves a zombie most of the time.
Anyone else getting this or care?

unSpawn · 09-22-2011, 02:22 PM

Best support this with something like '/bin/ps axfwwwo ppid,pid,uid,stat,cmd' output.

galen · 09-22-2011, 06:02 PM

Gnome System Monitor 2.28.2 is reporting zombies, if you have a way to log GSM I'd be happy to use it.
GSM shows the zombie status lasting from a minute to over an hour, it varies. My refresh rate is the default.

As I post this the zombies are clearing quickly but other times they a long time to clear. Doubt they have a performance affect
ps out
1931 8060 1000 Z \_ [gnome-terminal] <defunct>
1931 8120 1000 Z \_ [midori] <defunct>

unSpawn · 09-23-2011, 11:21 AM

Posting partial output doesn't help as we can't see parent Pid info. Short explanation http://www.linuxsa.org.au/tips/zombies.html (so I don't have to type it over). Only if the amount of zombies grows or if the total amount of (whatever) processes exceeds `cat /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max` there's a problem. In the first case there's software to be fixed and in the latter case simply put no processes can be started (and running 'sysctl -w kernel.pid_max=$[$(sysctl -n kernel.pid_max)*2]' counts as one too ;-p).

galen · 09-24-2011, 08:33 AM

I'm not concerned with performance caused by zombies, just posting for the archives in case someone wants to track it.