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Re: [Xen-devel] zombie domains

To: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] zombie domains
From: Ewan Mellor <ewan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 15:00:19 +0000
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On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 03:47:59PM +0100, Gerd Knorr wrote:

>   Hi,
> 
> How can I figure why some domain is still in zombie state, like these ones:
> 
>   master-xen root /vm/ttylinux# xm list
>   Name                              ID Mem(MiB) VCPUs State  Time(s)
>   Domain-0                           0      574     1 r-----    90.5
>   Zombie-small-11                   28        0     1 ---s-d     0.9
>   Zombie-small-17                   34        0     1 ---s-d     0.5
>   Zombie-small-18                   35        0     1 ---s-d     0.6
>   Zombie-small-19                   36        0     1 ---s-d     0.5
> 
> I've created 16 ttylinux instances with a script, then called "xm 
> shutdown -a -w", then ended up with these four Zombies ...

It's not easy, Gerd, hence the delay in replying to you!

Steven Hand found a bug related to Zombies (changeset 7618:a45408260abb) which
may well have fixed this problem, so could you retest and let us know how you
got on?

Thanks,

Ewan.

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