zombie processes
zombie processes © Daniel Stori · TurnOff.us · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Why it lands
A zombie is a process that has already exited but whose parent has not yet collected its exit status with wait(). It holds no memory, only a slot in the process table, and it stays until the parent reaps it, or until the parent itself exits and init adopts and reaps it. The busy parent with the phone is exactly that bug.
Transcript
- Meanwhile, on an ordinary Linux kernel...
- What's going on with these zombie processes?
- Their parent is too busy to get any notifications...
Credits
- Original
- zombie processes — Daniel Stori, TurnOff.us
- Image file
- turnoff.us/image/en/zombies.png
- License
- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
The English page shows the original image unmodified. The Japanese page shows an adaptation by wtfe²: the lettering was erased from the art and replaced with a Japanese translation. The adaptation is shared under the same license as the original.