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<font face="Verdana">More research on this shows that using
VBoxHeadless -s <guest> </font><font face="Verdana"><font
face="Verdana">or shift start from the main manager </font>does
not produce the zombies. <br>
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Only normal starting from the main manager or shortcut does.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 06/01/2013 11:56 AM, Perry Halbert
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<font face="Verdana">Strange behavior the last few weeks. <br>
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Stopping ( even saved state ) a guest leaves a zombie process on
the host. <br>
Each new start and it uses a new pid and the zombie is still
there.<br>
Stop all guests and the main manager and all processes including
the zombie processes finally clear.<br>
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Host = Ubuntu 12.04 LTS guest = any.<br>
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USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME
COMMAND<br>
perry 9538 6.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:36 0:34
[VirtualBox] <defunct><br>
perry 9934 4.3 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:37 0:22
[VirtualBox] <defunct><br>
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Normally I would not have seen this but the processor was doing
work when it should have been idle. I have never seen a zombie
process using CPU ticks before. Wait long enough and the %CPU
will finally get to zero but it seems to take like 20 to 30
minutes to do so.<br>
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