On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 18:33 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > Using F8, I have found that Nautilus sometimes hangs and > runs at 100% CPU. Force killing Nautilus's drive windows > was the only way to recover. I am not sure that force killing > this drive window is related to the zombie that I founding using > top. > > I also discovered that my swap was increased to 2GB of 4GB > and has stayed there ever since. > > So before I accuse Nautilus as being the zombie process, how > do I locate it using ps or some other tool to find out what is > going on and to what process the zombie was? > > In the same breadth, is there a way to clear zombie processes > without being forced to reboot the system which would certainly > remove the zombie process and clear the swap space? ---- you have to kill the parent - you can locate the parent process by running 'ps auxwwf' Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
