Zombie process in xfce elyssa beta
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 11:44 am
Hi
Wondering if anyone else running the current beta is encountering the same problem. I posted info on it under the beta announcement.
From my previous post :
Overall the beta is working great. Applied all updates for levels 1 through 3 today and have 1 zombie process ( even after restart and full shutdown ). The zombie process shows when using top from the terminal and as can be expected the kill -9 with the pid cannot find the process. When running idle the cpu will spike to 15 to 20 % every 5 to 10 seconds.
Just did a clean install to see if the problem originated before the updates and ran ps aux
root 7944 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 15:21 0:00 [sh] <defunct>
Using the ps -Af command I was able to determine the child process ( zombie ) parent ppid belongs to /usr/bin/python /opt/wicd/daemon
I have looked up bugs with wicd in ubuntu launchpad and it shows that there are issues with wicd and a zombie process that shows as [ sh ] defunct. I am not sure but from what I was able to find it refers to daemon.py . My internet connection is working good but whenever wicd polls the network status every 5 seconds or so it causes my screen to flicker everytime it does that and it gets hard on the eyes after a while. Also whenever I tried to open the wicd configuration screen it would cause my cpu to max out. I am on a wired connection and it seems to be looking for a wireless connection.
You can check to see if the zombie process is on your installation by running the top command from terminal.
Dale
Wondering if anyone else running the current beta is encountering the same problem. I posted info on it under the beta announcement.
From my previous post :
Overall the beta is working great. Applied all updates for levels 1 through 3 today and have 1 zombie process ( even after restart and full shutdown ). The zombie process shows when using top from the terminal and as can be expected the kill -9 with the pid cannot find the process. When running idle the cpu will spike to 15 to 20 % every 5 to 10 seconds.
Just did a clean install to see if the problem originated before the updates and ran ps aux
root 7944 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 15:21 0:00 [sh] <defunct>
Using the ps -Af command I was able to determine the child process ( zombie ) parent ppid belongs to /usr/bin/python /opt/wicd/daemon
I have looked up bugs with wicd in ubuntu launchpad and it shows that there are issues with wicd and a zombie process that shows as [ sh ] defunct. I am not sure but from what I was able to find it refers to daemon.py . My internet connection is working good but whenever wicd polls the network status every 5 seconds or so it causes my screen to flicker everytime it does that and it gets hard on the eyes after a while. Also whenever I tried to open the wicd configuration screen it would cause my cpu to max out. I am on a wired connection and it seems to be looking for a wireless connection.
You can check to see if the zombie process is on your installation by running the top command from terminal.
Dale