Problem with <exitting> processes

[Steve Souza @eldest]

Leonard E. Sitongia writes:
> This brings up another question: what is the "lbolt" WCHAN?

>From what I understand of the system internals, lbolt is a wait channel
address used by device driver routines that need to delay but are not
expecting a device interrupt.  They call the kernel sleep() routine with
lbolt as a parameter, and the system issues a wakeup call with the address
of this variable every second (every 60 clock ticks on a 60HZ machine).

I'd be surprised to see a process in a "zombie" state if it were waiting 
on a reliably deterministic event like lbolt.

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