zombie
Alf-Ivar Holm
alfh at student.matnat.uio.no
Fri Apr 29 06:50:58 UTC 2005
Karl Hegbloom <hegbloom at pdx.edu> writes:
> On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 12:05 -0400, ajtiM wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I uninstalled Festival and now i have one zombie:
>>
>> 8687 ? 00:00:00 speech-dispatch
>> 8689 ? 00:00:00 sd_flite
>> 8694 ? 00:00:00 sd_festival <defunct>
>>
>> I killed speech-dispatch but when i start computer again process
>> are still here.
If you restarted your computer the process above are probably not
zombies. The "?" only says that the process is not connected to a
terminal. To get to see whether they really are zombies or not, use
either the BSD style ps that Karl suggested, or add an "-f" to your
Sys V (or Unix¹) style ps ("ps -ef") to see the "full output",
including parent process id (PPID). If the PPID is not 0, the
processes have a true parent - on the other hand, if the PPIDs are 0,
they probably are zombies.
> Try "ps wwwauxf | less" and search using "/" for "speech".
I didn't know about the "f" option to BSD style ps - cool.
Affi
¹) When did BSD stop to be Unix?
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