Why is there a watchdog zombie process in Red Hat Enterprise Linux ?

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Issue

  • One of the watchdog kernel threads is always in Zombie state, why? :
root     10883  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    13:25   0:00 [watchdog] <defunct>

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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