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Article #1427zombies (was Re: What does a task with priority -1 mean?)
From: Dick Silbar
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 17:15
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 17:15
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In article <1992Nov10.152955.21859@menudo.uh.edu>, sears@tree.egr.uh.edu writes...
#A process with a PID of -1 (also stated as <mnach-task>) is really a zombied
#process. A zombie doesn't not really cause any harm to the system, except
#that it consumes 1 slot in the process table, of which there is a finite
#number of slots. When you run out of process slots, you will crash.
#
#It seems that one of the major creators of zombies is NeXT's Terminal.app.
#Generally whenever you close a terminal.app window, a zombie will be created.
#
#Btw, the zombies can not be "killed" (even will kill -9). Don't even bother
#to attempt it. But if you do, be prepared to reboot from a panic :-)
Interesting. So why is it that Project Builder creates a NEW terminal.app
window EVERY time you click on "debug"? (I do that a lot.)
Do they disappear when you log out? Or, do you have to reboot?
Dick Silbar (NeXTMail:silbar@whistler.lanl.gov)
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