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