Re: lots of Zombie Processes on Vaio PCG-Z600LEK

2003-03-28 Thread Obi
hello there, well I have the same problem, mainly with xmms. I have a laptop, use noflushd when I'm not on AC and I'm running 2.4.20 modified for my Fujitsu P2110. Well, after having read your email, I decided to ditch noflusd to see if things improved and so far (knock on wood) no defunct yet. I

Re: lots of Zombie Processes on Vaio PCG-Z600LEK

2003-03-28 Thread Obi
hello there, well I have the same problem, mainly with xmms. I have a laptop, use noflushd when I'm not on AC and I'm running 2.4.20 modified for my Fujitsu P2110. Well, after having read your email, I decided to ditch noflusd to see if things improved and so far (knock on wood) no defunct yet. I

Re: lots of Zombie Processes on Vaio PCG-Z600LEK

2003-03-28 Thread Neill Smith
Tim Connors wrote: In linux.debian.laptop, you wrote: It's been a while. Have you solved the problem yet? Hello, No, I gave up after a few weeks, and re-installed. The problem has re-occured once since then, and I gave up and ran Mandrake (but notably not noflushd) :-( I'll let people

Re: lots of Zombie Processes on Vaio PCG-Z600LEK

2003-03-28 Thread Tim Connors
In linux.debian.laptop, you wrote: >Hello, > > I have a problem with zombie processes on my laptop(debian woody). >Applications that seem to spawn child processes don't seem to get rid >off them when finnished, for example XMMS creates a process for every >track, but these never get killed,

Re: lots of Zombie Processes on Vaio PCG-Z600LEK

2003-03-28 Thread Neill Smith
Tim Connors wrote: In linux.debian.laptop, you wrote: It's been a while. Have you solved the problem yet? Hello, No, I gave up after a few weeks, and re-installed. The problem has re-occured once since then, and I gave up and ran Mandrake (but notably not noflushd) :-( I'll let people kno

Re: lots of Zombie Processes on Vaio PCG-Z600LEK

2003-03-28 Thread Tim Connors
In linux.debian.laptop, you wrote: >Hello, > > I have a problem with zombie processes on my laptop(debian woody). >Applications that seem to spawn child processes don't seem to get rid >off them when finnished, for example XMMS creates a process for every >track, but these never get killed,

lots of Zombie Processes on Vaio PCG-Z600LEK

2002-05-10 Thread Neill R Smith
Hello, I have a problem with zombie processes on my laptop(debian woody). Applications that seem to spawn child processes don't seem to get rid off them when finnished, for example XMMS creates a process for every track, but these never get killed, and just pile up until the system proces

lots of Zombie Processes on Vaio PCG-Z600LEK

2002-05-10 Thread Neill R Smith
Hello, I have a problem with zombie processes on my laptop(debian woody). Applications that seem to spawn child processes don't seem to get rid off them when finnished, for example XMMS creates a process for every track, but these never get killed, and just pile up until the system proce