Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:35:43 -0800 From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: attack of the zombies Message-ID: <20061113173543.390045B50@mail.bitblocks.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:54:01 %2B0100." <20061113135401.3dm4klxfacsc48gg@webmail.leidinger.net>
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First of all, thanks for looking at this!
> To make sure there is no "garbage" somewhere:
> - remove all linux ports
> - remove /compat/linux/* (rm -rf)
I hope we can find a less drastic way to handle such
problems. Anyway I did this.
> - install what you need (only from ports)
# cd /usr/port/net/skype; make install
This resulted in fresh install of the following ports:
skype-1.2.0.18_2
linux_dri-6.5
linux-xorg-libs-6.8.2_5
linux-fontconfig-2.2.3_5
linux-expat-1.95.8
linux_base-fc-4_9
Then I fired up skype and logged in and now there are 28
zombies. My guess is something with signals broke. Next
I will try backing out just the stuff in /sys/compat/linux
and recompling/reloading linux.ko
> We are talking about i386, right? Please provide the output of "sysctl
> compat.linux" (osversion should be set to 2.4.2).
Correct. Only the i386.
$ sysctl compat.linux
compat.linux.oss_version: 198144
compat.linux.osrelease: 2.4.2
compat.linux.osname: Linux
> > Also note that the old problem of linux-* programs gobbling
> > up lots of memory is still present. For example, FreeBSD
> > opera uses 96MB while Linux opera on FreeBSD needs 236MB + 48
> > zombies to displaying exact same 24 pages (same session file
> > and *just* after starting!).
> >
> > Is this a known problem? Am I doing something wrong?
>
> This is not a known problem (at least not for 2.4.2 compatibility,
> which is the default in -current). For known problems have a look at
> http://wiki.freebsd.org/linux-kernel
Thanks!
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