Very Computer

Quote:> ps aux |grep defunct:
>  kornman   5778  0.3  1.4  648  420 pts/1    S 13:59:38  0:00 grep defunct
>  root      5389  0.0  0.0    0    0          Z           0:00  <defunct>
>  root      5390  0.0  0.0    0    0          Z           0:00  <defunct>
>  kornman   5391  0.0  0.0    0    0          Z           0:06  <defunct>
>  picone    5593  0.0  0.0    0    0          Z           0:02  <defunct>

Quote:> 5.23) I have a lot of <defunct> processes. How do I get rid of them?

> In Solaris 2.3 (and presumably earlier) there is a bug in the
> pseudo tty modules that makes them hang in close.  This causes
> processes to hang forever while exiting.

> Fix: Apply patch 101415-02 (for 2.3).

Does anyone know of a patch for this problem under Solaris 2.4?

-Joe

-Joe

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/usr/bin/ps -ael:
 F S   UID   PID  PPID  C PRI NI     ADDR     SZ    WCHAN TTY      TIME COMD
19 T     0     0     0 70   0 SY f0186ca8      0          ?        0:01 sched
 8 S     0     1     0 80  41 20 fc0b8018    185 fc0b81e8 ?        0:19 init
...
 8 Z     0   280   274  1   0                                      0:00 <defunct>
 8 R     0   274     1 80  99 20 fc332330    752          ?       519:30 xdm
 8 Z     0   294   274  5   0                                      0:00 <defunct>
 8 Z     0   327   274 34   0                                      0:01 <defunct>

It is unclear what precisely is your problem as your process listing
doesn't include parent pids.

If the parent pids are 1 and the processes are true zombies (check with lsof),
the there might be a bug in init *or* init is still executing a "wait"
type service.

If the parent process is not 1, then that particular parent process has a bug.

Casper
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