That was interesting...I have to remember that... ps auxwwf (the answer to WTF) ;-) I was able to kill them off at the top Thanks root 1555 0.0 0.4 11424 8416 ? S 13:38 0:04 \_ /usr/bin/X11/X -s off -dpms -v -nolock -fp /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc - logfile /etc/rhgb/temp/XFree86.0.log -extension XFree86-DRI :9 vt8 root 1606 0.0 0.0 2504 588 ? S 13:39 0:00 \_ gnome-pty-helper root 1607 0.0 0.0 3400 304 pts/0 Ss+ 13:39 0:00 \_ /sbin/change_console -f root 2462 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 13:40 0:00 \_ [chvt] <defunct> root 2470 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 13:40 0:00 \_ [chvt] <defunct> Is this because I disconnected monitor and rebooted? Craig On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 00:34 +0100, Maciej Żenczykowski wrote: > Use "ps auxwwf" to figure out what are the zombies parents and kill the > parents. Whenever a process ends/dies/is killed it is turned into a > zombie until it is 'reaped' by it's parent process (the parent process > needs the zombie to stay around until it receives the SIGCHLD signal and > retrieves the process exit state). If a program has children but fails to > reap them (either because it doesn't handle SIGCHLD or reap in some other > manner) via lack of such facility or bad design or because it froze, > zombie processes may accumulate... > > Cheers, > MaZe. > > On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Craig White wrote: > > > after booting a CentOS 4.2 system > > > > I have a bunch of zombies... > > > > root 2828 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 14:41 0:00 [chvt] > > <defunct> > > > > My read from googling this is chvt stems from something that involves a > > shell. > > > > They ***may*** have been created from my attempts to start mysqld which > > isn't working (I will start another thread) but no efforts to kill them > > off are working... > > > > [root at srv1 certs]# kill 2828 > > [root at srv1 certs]# kill -9 2828 > > [root at srv1 certs]# ps aux|grep 2828 > > root 2828 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 14:41 0:00 [chvt] > > <defunct> > > > > How do I clean this up? > > > > Craig > > > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos