Not a direct answer, but...
I think zombies (under most, if not all unices) don't use resources,
other than the PID. - chad
On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 03:06:35PM -0800, Hamid Khoshnevis wrote:
> Hello to all,
> In a web environment, a user can repeatedly starts and abort large queries
> which create a large number of zombie postmasters. Is there a way to
> control the postmaster zombies so that they don't clog up the system
> resources.
>
> thanks,
>
> hamid
>
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