Description of problem: Killed processes gets removed after 2-3 minutes Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RHEL 3 with all updates How reproducible: It is not always but happens if there are threaded application mostly Steps to Reproduce: 1. kill any threaded application 2. use ps --forest to look for the process id 3. Actual results: You will find those running or locked process, and then wait for 2-3 minutes and again run ps, you will find thoses processes gets killed. Expected results: As soon as you run kill -9 $pid, those processes should get killed immidiately. Additional info:
RHEL3 is no longer in active developement. Only critical security and bug fixes will be considered for inclusion. If the processes/threads are *never* reaped, that would be a bug. A delay in reaping is not.