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Always thought
topwas one of those programs frozen in time since the 70s, but apparently, it has a feature set comparable tohtopand the like. The default configuration just doesn’t show much of it…
SIGKILL is a good way to orphan children. Or end a DB transaction without properly closing it (so the server socket stays open, or the transaction lock isn’t released…) It exists for a reason, but docs usually caution against it because it can cause unexpected behaviors.
Eh, system will take care of the orphans
Turning them into Zombies is certainly a way of dealing with orphans, sure…
New decoration idea for Halloween: orphaned zombie processes
Just some numbers with a
Znext to them…Ah makes sense. Thanks!