Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Jan 1999 20:47:36 +0000 | From | Steve Dodd <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.0-pre7 bug report |
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Hi,
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 03:35:30PM +0100, Max wrote:
> # kill -9 `pidof kswapd` > sends kswapd in Zombie status. > Is this intentional?
I guess it's not exactly intentional but certainly to be expected. The kernel wouldn't be expecting you to kill kswapd (presumably only root can do this :), or indeed for kswapd to complete at all, so it's unlikely to have another thread waiting around to read its exit code..
Cheers, Steve
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