Zombie processes Firefox and Mozilla

[SiO4, Yong Hwan]

I'm using same version of firefox now. and when I run firefox,
the netstat, firefox-bin's only one child, remained as zombie.



On 2005-12-10 02:43, Markus Huber wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> does anyone experience zombie processes after having started firefox or 
> mozilla? They are there immediatly after having started firefox or 
> mozilla. I do not know since when I have them, just saw them yesterday, 
> when I was tracking a bad data-harddisk - which is replaced by now.
> 
> This FC4-box is at actual patchlevel, and the versions are:
> [markus at fc4 ~]$ rpm -q mozilla
> mozilla-1.7.12-1.5.1
> [markus at fc4 ~]$ rpm -q firefox
> firefox-1.0.7-1.1.fc4
> 
> Here's an excerpt of:
> 
> [markus at fc4 ~]$ ps -ux
> 
> USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
> 
> markus    4525  1.6  6.8 140420 70672 ?        Rl   14:08   4:26 
> /usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.12/mozilla-bin
> markus    4533  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
> [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
> markus    4534  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
> [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
> markus    4535  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
> [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
> markus    4536  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
> [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
> markus    4537  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
> [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
> markus    4539  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
> [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
> markus    4540  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
> [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
> markus    4541  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
> [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
> markus    4542  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
> [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
> markus    4543  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
> [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
> markus    4608  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:13   0:00
> markus    4525  1.6  6.8 140420 70672 ?        Sl   14:08   4:26 
> /usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.12/mozilla-bin
> markus    4533  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
> [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
> markus    4534  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
> [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
> markus    4535  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
> [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
> markus    4536  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
> [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
> markus    4537  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
> [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
> markus    4539  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
> [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
> markus    4540  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
> [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
> markus    4541  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
> [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
> markus    4542  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
> [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
> markus    4543  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 
> [mozilla-bin] <defunct>
> markus    4608  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    14:13   0:00 
> [netstat] <defunct>
> 
> Thank you for any suggestion,
> Markus Huber
>