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> On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Chris Bond wrote:
> > On one of my redhat 4.2 linux boxes request-route keeps going into a
> > zombie state. It gets that bad after 48 hours i have to reboot the box.
> > Has anybody ever got this before, or is they a way i can get the kernel to
> > stop request-routes as we don't use the facality. I'ved tried killall -9
> > request-route but the zombie processes are still there
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> You can't kill a zombie-proces, but it goes away when the process that
> created it get's killed. In your case that's kerneld.
> So kill and restart kerneld to get rid of any request-route zombies.
Well, actually init (pid 1) will then inherit the zombie's of kerneld and
get rid of them. Hence the questions arises why kerneld does not do that
itself. Either it is a zombie itself or there is a bug or conceptional
flaw with it. Maybe someone one the kernel list has an idea?
Michael.
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