f9 defunct processes right after logon
Cameron Simpson
cs at zip.com.au
Fri Dec 5 00:17:11 UTC 2008
On 04Dec2008 13:02, Dave Feustel <dfeustel at mindspring.com> wrote:
| I am as of this morning seeing lots of defunct ksh shells in my
| ps list. [...]
| Process list
It would be more helpful to do a "ps axf", which will show you their
parent. A default process is an exited process whose parent has not yet
wait()ed for it, so the parent is the culprit.
BTW, is this a GUI or text mode login?
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