Bas Bosman wrote:
Hello I have a really strange problem which I can’t trace.
After my fedora core 2 server has been running for a while the load goes
up above 1.XX without a clear reason.
When I run the TOP command I get this:
Tasks: 179 total, 3 running, 144 sleeping, 0 stopped, 32 zombie
Cpu(s): 83.6% us, 15.8% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.7% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 256024k total, 252912k used, 3112k free, 43184k buffers
Swap: 1044216k total, 286548k used, 757668k free, 14916k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1574 apache 25 0 8588 3360 1880 R 88.5 1.3 903:27.45 perl
So I guess 32 zombies is a bit much;)
Anyone has any idea how I can trace this problem?
Do an lsof or gdb on the zombies and see what parent they were spawned
off of.
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