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Date:      Mon, 21 Oct 2002 14:09:53 -0700
From:      Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU>
To:        Duncan Barclay <dmlb@dmlb.org>
Cc:        current <current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: zombies from linux binaries
Message-ID:  <3DB46D21.2050807@isi.edu>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20021002005307.dmlb@computer.my.domain>
References:  <XFMail.20021002005307.dmlb@computer.my.domain>

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Duncan,

Duncan Barclay wrote:

> On 01-Oct-2002 Lars Eggert wrote:
>
> >I've been running the guidescope web ad blocker
> >(http://www.guidescope.com/home/) as a Linux binary under FreeBSD for a
> >long time. The thing seems to fork a child for each web request it 
> proxies.
> >
> >Under -current, it seems that the child processes become zombies, and
> >the proxy stops working once 1024 or so accumulate. The zombies don't go
> >away when parent process finishes, they stick around until reboot.
>
> Is this http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=42457 related? It
> is for stable but I belive that the same behaviour is present in -current
> and it may manifest itself differently.

I have finally applied your patch from the PR, but unfortunately it does 
not fix the problem with guidescope I am seeing. Looks like something 
else is broken WRT Linux forking:

[larse@nik: ~] ps -auxww | grep guide
larse      0  0.0  0.0     0    0  ??  ZW   -         0:00.00  (guide.new)
larse      0  0.0  0.0     0    0  ??  ZW   -         0:00.00  (guide.new)
larse      0  0.0  0.0     0    0  ??  ZW   -         0:00.00  (guide.new)
larse      0  0.0  0.0     0    0  ??  ZW   -         0:00.00  (guide.new)
larse      0  0.0  0.0     0    0  ??  ZW   -         0:00.00  (guide.new)
larse      0  0.0  0.0     0    0  ??  ZW   -         0:00.00  (guide.new)
larse      0  0.0  0.0     0    0  ??  ZW   -         0:00.00  (guide.new)
larse      0  0.0  0.0     0    0  ??  ZW   -         0:00.00  (guide.new)
larse      0  0.0  0.0     0    0  ??  ZW   -         0:00.00  (guide.new)
larse      0  0.0  0.0     0    0  ??  ZW   -         0:00.00  (guide.new)
larse      0  0.0  0.0     0    0  ??  ZW   -         0:00.00  (guide.new)
larse      0  0.0  0.0     0    0  ??  ZW   -         0:00.00  (guide.new)
larse      0  0.0  0.0     0    0  ??  ZW   -         0:00.00  (guide.new)
larse   2117  0.0  0.2 40128 2200  ??  I     1:56PM   0:00.09 
/nfs/ruby/larse/bin/guide.new /nfs/ruby/larse/bin/guide/guide.conf
larse   2762  0.0  0.2 40128 2200  ??  S     1:59PM   0:00.01 
/nfs/ruby/larse/bin/guide.new /nfs/ruby/larse/bin/guide/guide.conf
larse   2763  0.0  0.2 40128 2200  ??  S     1:59PM   0:00.22 
/nfs/ruby/larse/bin/guide.new /nfs/ruby/larse/bin/guide/guide.conf
larse      0  0.0  0.0     0    0  ??  ZW   -         0:00.00  (guide.new)
larse   2861  0.0  0.0   316  184  p0  L+    2:03PM   0:00.00 grep guide
larse      0  0.0  0.0     0    0  ??  ZW   -         0:00.00  (guide.new)
larse      0  0.0  0.0     0    0  ??  ZW   -         0:00.00  (guide.new)
larse      0  0.0  0.0     0    0  ??  ZW   -         0:00.00  (guide.new)


Lars
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Lars Eggert <larse@isi.edu>           USC Information Sciences Institute

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