On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 05:51:46PM +0100, Henri Cook wrote:

Does anyone ever see:

root 18628 3.2 0.0 0 0 ? Z 17:30 0:40 \_ [kvm] <defunct>

Zombie copies of KVM under libvirtd? They're unkillable (without restarting libvirtd) - although libvirt all still functions as normal

I think I have seen this happen once or twice. If you find a method to reproduce it reliably, definitely file a bug. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top