Re: what happening to my system

Leos Bitto (bitto@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Fri, 19 Jun 1998 09:00:12 +0200 (MET DST)


On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, William Stearns wrote:

>
> > plus after bootup time i get when i type ps ax|more
> >
> > 209 ? Z 0:00 (request-route <zombie>)
> > 848 ? Z 0:00 (request-route <zombie>)
> >
> > and it will go up to 7 oer 8 like this in the next 3 days
>
> The default request-route that came with my system had a nasty
> habit of filling up the task table with zombies like yours. As I don't
> need it, I simply did:
>
> cd /sbin
> mv request-route request-route.notneeded

I did the same (ok, not the same, I did "mv request-route
request-route.dontuse" ;-) ) with no problems.

>
> Unless someone has a better idea, you'll need to reboot (ugh!) to
> get rid of the existing zombies.
>

Reboot is not needed! Just kill kerneld and run it again and these zombies
will disappear.

Leos Bitto

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