Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 00:53:07 +0100 (BST) From: Duncan Barclay <dmlb@dmlb.org> To: Lars Eggert <larse@ISI.EDU> Cc: current <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: zombies from linux binaries Message-ID: <XFMail.20021002005307.dmlb@computer.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <3D99FD27.6050102@isi.edu>
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On 01-Oct-2002 Lars Eggert wrote: > Hi, > > 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. > Are there known issues with the Linux emulation under -current? Any > other information I can provide to help track this down? > > Thanks, > Lars > -- > Lars Eggert <larse@isi.edu> USC Information Sciences Institute -- ________________________________________________________________________ Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, dmlb@dmlb.org | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned. dmlb@freebsd.org| Steven King To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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