Re: /proc/nzombies

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The following is wrong with it:

1) It is too slow
2) It is not full (fool) proof
3) It takes too much resources to execute very often in a monitoring
system that you want to be non-intrusive
4) It is Linux distribution dependent (ps flags)
5) It is somewhat unwieldy from a C program

++Jos

almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch wrote:
>
> Jos Visser wrote:
> > CONFIG_PROC_NZOMBIES?
>
> What's wrong with
>
> ps ax | grep -c '<zombie>'
>
> ???
>
> - Werner
>
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