From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 10 12:01:26 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8EBA16A4CE for ; Tue, 10 Feb 2004 12:01:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from gw.catspoiler.org (217-ip-163.nccn.net [209.79.217.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27F7543D1D for ; Tue, 10 Feb 2004 12:01:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from truckman@FreeBSD.org) Received: from FreeBSD.org (mousie.catspoiler.org [192.168.101.2]) by gw.catspoiler.org (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i1AK1F7E027739; Tue, 10 Feb 2004 12:01:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from truckman@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <200402102001.i1AK1F7E027739@gw.catspoiler.org> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 12:01:14 -0800 (PST) From: Don Lewis To: killing@multiplay.co.uk In-Reply-To: <02b101c3eff8$7dc02c60$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Zombie processes not clearing (solution) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 20:01:26 -0000 On 10 Feb, Steven Hartland wrote: > Ok looks like this has been spotted before and its a kernel issue > described here: > http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=bausg0%2416c5%241%40FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw&rnum=13 If the kernel patch mentioned above fixes the problem, I'll commit it to -CURRENT. I never got any feedback when I previously posted it. > I've made a 5.1 and 5.2 patch available from: > ftp://ftp.multiplay.co.uk/pub/games/fps/battlefield1942/patches/FreeBSD/ I haven't been able to access that FTP server. It always tells me that the maximum number of allowed clients is connected. > This affects all linux threaded apps which don't set SIGCHLD or > do an explicit wait().