'zombie' processes
in 'top' I get this:
23:37:33 up 19 days, 8:02, 3 users, load average: 17.96, 18.18, 15.17
221 processes: 184 sleeping, 2 running, 33 zombie, 2 stopped
CPU states: 26.5% user 9.5% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait 74.8% idle
Mem: 514196k av, 508952k used, 5244k free, 0k shrd, 13848k buff
94536k active, 367140k inactive
Swap: 2104504k av, 240656k used, 1863848k free 202932k cached
how can I find out what are the 33 zombies they seem to be pushing up the load - it is not the top few processes running, those seem very normal and change every second; httpd / exim / gzip etc.
also, if my CPU is 74% idle how can the load be so high? (is it because of the ram?)
