On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 15:13 (+0000), Russell Brown wrote:
> Hello,
> We're seeing lots of kdesktop_lock processes left lying around after
> users have logged out. With the number of users (100+ on some of our
> systems) and uptimes in years, the process table is going to end up full
> of these :-(
> If one does an strace on the process it terminates but not until then.
> Here's a (partial) pstree of a user with a three hanging kdesktop_lock
> processes:
>>F S UID PID PPID PGID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN TTY TIME CMD
>>0 S 1051 22549 1 22482 0 80 0 - 7739 - ? 00:00:00
kdesktop_lock
> Process 22482 (the PGID) doesn't exist.
That is partially because PGID is not a process id, it is a process
group ID.
Cheers.
Jim