On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 06:39:58PM +0100, Sören Edzen wrote:
> amanda 6163 0.0 0.3 2296 844 ? Ss 18:29 0:00 amandad
> amanda 6165 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 18:29 0:00 [amandad] <defunct>
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> Does <defunct> means that there's something wrong with amandad or
> could there be some other problem.
<defunct> means that the process has exited, but its parent
process hasn't yet collected its exit status. Such "undead"
processes are called "zombies". See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_process
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The animal that coils in a circle is the serpent; that's why so
many cults and myths of the serpent exist, because it's hard to
represent the return of the sun by the coiling of a hippopotamus.
- Umberto Eco, "Foucault's Pendulum"
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