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List:       swsusp-devel
Subject:    [swsusp] Zombies...
From:       Detlef Conradin conradin () ws1 ! conradin ! ch
Date:       2000-11-21 19:55:35
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Hello!

> The problem is that once I have restored, I cannot terminate anything...
> killing a process only turns it into a zombie. I cannot even do a proper
> shutdown. I can new new programs as usual, but terminating them allso turns
> them into zombies, until my poor linux looks like some horror movie from the
> 40'ies :)

I sometimes have this problem too. It really seems to have someting to do
with INIT. After resuming my init process sometimes (i can't say when
it happens)  uses 99 % of the CPU. And then it's not possible anymore to
terminate the different processes.

> I'm running a 99% intel compatible. A palmax product known as "PD-1000+". It
> uses a Cyrix MediaGX running at 166MHz. (It's a processor that claims to be
> Pentium compatible, and yes it does run a P2 compiled kernel, but since
> linux claims that it is a 486, I have re-compiled my kernel to 486 code.) I
> have not had any other trouble with this machine.

And your version of INIT ?

Bye,
  Detlef Conradin

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