zombies (was different)

[Zbigniew Koziol]

> The trick is having a process around in the first place, and you have to know
> what processes to kill (i.e. the parent of the zombies).
> 

Why it happens in the first place that zombies occur?

I have the problem at my work. When a script is run from shell, it works 
fine. But when it is run as a cron job (FC 2) it sometimes lefts as a 
zombie. One time that resulted in machine being non responsive because 
zombies took its entire memory resources. We have no clue however what 
causes the problem and googling is not helpfull. Any ideas?  BTW, the 
same scripts did not cause problems on some earlier versions of OS (I 
think it was Red Had).

zb.

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