VI correct shutdown?

[satch]

the vi editor seems to ?zombie? and do a run-away with the cpu cycles.
I've added a cpu monitor just for it. I use it all the time for readme's
and the occaisional edit ; )
could it be because I use the "ZZ" for shutdown?

[David]

I doubt it, ZZ is the same as a :wq command and has nothing to do with
vi at the process level. Also, if a process is a zombie it is stopped/longer
running and is just waiting for the parent process to acknowledge the fact.
So, how could it "run away"? What are you doing to start the vi process?
Are you running vi from a shell? Are you actually runing a vi clone?

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[satch]

On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 12:09:20 -0700, David wrote:

> satch wrote:
>>
>> the vi editor seems to ?zombie? and do a run-away with the cpu cycles.
>> I've added a cpu monitor just for it. I use it all the time for
>> readme's and the occaisional edit ; ) could it be because I use the
>> "ZZ" for shutdown?
>
> I doubt it, ZZ is the same as a :wq command and has nothing to do with
> vi at the process level. Also, if a process is a zombie it is
> stopped/longer running and is just waiting for the parent process to
> acknowledge the fact. So, how could it "run away"? What are you doing
> to start the vi process? Are you running vi from a shell? Are you
> actually runing a vi clone?
>

I'm using gnome and gnome-terminal, type"vi /misc-readme-etc, ZZ out and
a few minuets later I kpm or ps -aef and can see the vi process running
but it's not on any desktops or minamised (I really need
a spell checker with pan ; ) + why would a vi process be using >%50 of
the cpu? I noticed it when all processes were dog slow, I changed the
.vimrc to nobackup and although it's only been a few hours, it hasn't
done it. . .