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Old 08-06-2006, 12:38 PM   #1
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Top reports 1 zombie - which one?


Top reports that I have one zombie process. Having used Slackware daily for 2 years now, I've never ever had a zombie process, and now top reports at least one zombie process continuously, even immediately after boot.

While top tells me 1 running, 82 sleeping, 0 stopped and 1 zombie process, it doesn't state *which* program causes the offence.

How do I tell top, ps or other tools to tell which process/program is the offender, and what could be the cause of this when no changes (other than upgrading to latest -current) have been made recently?

Thanks in advance

-y1
 
Old 08-06-2006, 12:43 PM   #2
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ps -ef | grep defunct should do the trick.
 
Old 08-06-2006, 01:14 PM   #3
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perfect - thanks!

Turns out that operapluginwrapper is the culprit.. Guess it's buy buy opera anyway then :P

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