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SubjectRe: more memory => zombies and high load
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Pawel S. Veselov wrote:
> Hello, Alan!
>
> On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> >> 1) I've found a lot of zombies processes ( uptime is small enough, and
> >> nothing "non-standart" was happened )
> >Any oopses in the syslog ? Also if you have a TX chipset going over 64Mb
> >slows your box down
>
> Nope. Pair xmit_timer <= 0 - timer:2 when:bfe38a6f and that's all.
> Chipset - 82430 VX... Actually, after playing around for a while, found out,
> that ALL processes are becoming zombies ... :( Including login and so, I can't
> ever relogin on a tty because of that :(
Hmmm, seen a lot of that. It means init is not responding. And that init
is not responding might be due to a bug in init. I know switching from
RH4.0 to RH4.1 stopped a lot of zombies on ipx networkactivity...
(That is from 2.0.17 to 2.0.27... Now running 2.0.30)
--
dec1: 12:34am up 6 days, 3:29, 7 users, load average: 0.39, 0.45, 0.30



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