gnomerc=Zombie

[Henry Spencer]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Francois Ouellette wrote:
> By resources I meant CPU... but you are right, the process might be using
> memory and other stuff as well as the process entry itself. I have seen
> zombies in all UNIX systems I worked with.

In *long* bygone days, zombie processes did consume a little bit of memory
in addition to the process-table entry.  Some bright folks noticed that
there was very little useful information actually being retained in that
snippet of memory, and revised the code to use some fields in the process
table (otherwise unused for zombies) to hold it instead.  No modern system
has zombies holding any resources except the process-table slot. 

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

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