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Probing for Zombie Processes?
- From: Nathan DeBardeleben <ndebard at lanl dot gov>
- To: "systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com" <systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 14:11:14 -0700
- Subject: Probing for Zombie Processes?
I love the SystemTap wiki, by the way. The war stories are great - I
encourage more of them! :)
On that note, I am having a problem with processes going zombie on me -
more often than I normally am used to and thought SystemTap might be
useful in this regard. But, before I dive into it:
1: has anyone dug into looking at zombie processes?
2: anyone have any insight into what might be good areas to probe with
respect to this
3: can anyone think of a better / easier tool that I should look into
instead?
I'm hoping I might be able to record something more useful than just
"PID xyz went to state=zombie".
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-- Nathan
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Nathan DeBardeleben, Ph.D.
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Parallel Tools Team
High Performance Computing Environments (HPC-4)
phone: 505-667-3428
email: ndebard@lanl.gov
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