Hello all, I have an issue I don't understand and am wondering if it is a real problem or not. As you can see from below I get a process that shows <defunct>. When I go to the /proc folder I find a directory that is all messed up. This keeps happening with process ID's at around the same point (34??). When this happens the system gets a little flaky and I need to delete the directory and reboot to clear the problem. It seems to me that it should be random and not so predictable. It also happens well after a boot (Hours). Since it is so predictable I thought some program during boot may have been the problem. But that just does not seem to hold water. Also I only get one of these never any more. Can anyone provide any insight? Is this a bug? Regards, George Neusse ps -A 3399 pts/1 00:00:00 bash 3422 ? 00:00:00 crond 3423 ? 00:00:00 sh <defunct> 3426 ? 00:00:00 sadc 3514 ? 00:00:00 run-parts 4886 pts/1 00:00:00 view 4931 ? 00:00:00 yum.cron 4932 ? 00:00:00 awk 4941 pts/2 00:00:00 bash 5003 pts/2 00:00:00 su 5007 pts/2 00:00:00 bash 5044 ? 00:00:00 yum 5050 pts/2 00:00:00 ps [root@portege proc]# ls 3423 ls: cannot read symbolic link cwd: No such file or directory ls: cannot read symbolic link root: No such file or directory ls: cannot read symbolic link exe: No such file or directory attr cmdline environ fd mem root statm task auxv cwd exe maps mounts stat status wchan [root@portege proc]#
