From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 6 11:34:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from kci.kciLink.com (kci.kciLink.com [204.117.82.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D12037B423 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 11:34:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from onceler.kciLink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [204.117.82.2]) by kci.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7502EE881 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 14:34:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from khera@localhost) by onceler.kciLink.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e86IYn040163; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 14:34:49 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from khera) From: Vivek Khera MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14774.36425.131176.125597@onceler.kciLink.com> Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 14:34:49 -0400 (EDT) To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: running lyris for linux makes many zombies In-Reply-To: References: <14774.30930.120103.685216@onceler.kciLink.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 11) "Carlsbad Caverns" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "DW" == Doug White writes: DW> On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Vivek Khera wrote: >> Anyhow, I'm getting *lots* of zombie processes being left around after >> processing a few messages, and the number keeps growing. This did not >> happen on the "real" linux system. DW> This is a bug in Lyris. Annoy them. Any more specific evidence? Are they not calling wait() on the children? I had this problem of zombies on the linux box with an earlier beta of lyris 4.0, but the production release of lyris was not exhibiting this behavior. I do believe they are properly reaping processes... but I have to run ktrace on it to see, I suppose. Or do you already have such evidence that they're not calling wait() like they should? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-301-545-6996 GPG & MIME spoken here http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message