Mozilla memory leak

[Kurt Wall]

On Fri, 31 May 2002 15:42:59 +1000
James McDonald <james_mcdonald at bigfoot.com> wrote:

> which reminds me how do you automatically kill of dead processes? I found 
> that I had quite a few that were still in the list and hadn't been used for 2 
> days .... 

What do you mean by "dead processes?" If you are talking about zombies,
processes with "Z" in their status line, they are already dead, so you
can't kill them. Zombies aren't using any system resources except for an
entry in the process table. A few zombies, while annoying, doesn't really
affect the system, but if you have oodles, it can become a problem because
process table entries are a finite quantity -- when you're out of entries,
the kernel can't start any more processes and you have to reboot. In such
a case, the kernel isn't the problem; rather, the program creating zombies
is and should be fixed or removed from your system.

Kurt
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