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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Help! Zombies Post 302859759 by Don Cragun on Thursday 3rd of October 2013 05:42:23 PM
Old 10-03-2013
Having a zombie or two lying around isn't a big deal. The only thing that still exists for a zombie is a process table entry (which includes its process ID and its exit status). Its address space has already been returned to the system and is available for use by other processes.

If you have a lot of zombies, your process table could fill up and you would be unable to start other processes.
Last edited by Don Cragun; 10-04-2013 at 12:21 AM.. Reason: fix typo
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

canadian-english-huge

canadian-english-huge(5)					   Users' Manual					  canadian-english-huge(5)

NAME

       canadian-english-huge - a list of English words

DESCRIPTION

       /usr/share/dict/canadian-english-huge is an ASCII file which contains an alphabetic list of words, one per line.

FILES

       There  may  be  any  number  of	word lists in /usr/share/dict/.  /etc/dictionaries-common/words is a symbolic link to the currently-chosen
       /usr/share/dict/<language> file.  /usr/share/dict/words is a symbolic link to /etc/dictionaries-common/words, and  is  the  name  by  which
       other  software should refer to the system word list.  See select-default-wordlist(8) for more information, and/or to change the currently-
       chosen word list.

       The directory /usr/share/dict can contain word lists for many languages, with name of the language in English, e.g., /usr/share/dict/french
       and  /usr/share/dict/danish  contain respectively lists of French and Danish words if they exist.  Such lists should be coded using the ISO
       8859-1 character set encoding.

SEE ALSO

       ispell(1), select-default-wordlist(8), and the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.

HISTORY

       The words lists are not specific, and may be generated from any number of sources.

       The system word list used to be /usr/dict/words.  For compatibility, software should check that location if /usr/share/dict/words does  not
       exist.

AUTHOR

       Word  lists  are  collected and maintained by various authors.  The Debian English word lists are built from the SCOWL (Spell- Checker Ori-
       ented Word Lists) package, whose upstream editor is Kevin Atkinson <kevina@users.sourceforge.net>.

Debian								   16 June 2003 					  canadian-english-huge(5)
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