I just discovered a serious bug. My INIT got zombied after about 5 days of uptime..The machine itself works fine except I got a constant load average of 1,00-2,00. also there is a LOT of zombie processes..right now its over 80 at least..total 175 processes. Way 2 much. Havent discovered this before until the install of RH 6.2. And you are unable to reboot via consolecommand..You must do a hard reboot to fix this :(. lots of named zombies too. All screens and everything just died and are zombies. Well..hopefully you know about this and fix it //Johnny Vstberg
This almost certainly has to do with something else such as a deadlocked kernel, or memory problems of some sort, rather than SysVinit code itself.