Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 17:20:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net> To: FreeBSD-Stable <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: negative proccnt Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009141719550.35179-100000@acs-24-154-28-99.zoominternet.net> In-Reply-To: <14785.15822.898420.198946@onceler.kciLink.com>
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On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Vivek Khera wrote:
> >>>>> "DL" == Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com> writes:
>
> DL> It might cut down on the number of complaints, but not eliminate them.
> DL> Anyway, proccnt shouldn't even go to 0 for uid 0, since init is always
> DL> running.
>
> DL> Is there anything unusual running on this machine? Also, your machine
> DL> seems to be going through a lot of processes, since this message could
> DL> only occur as a result of a fork(), exit(), or one of the setuid family
> DL> of syscalls.
>
> The main thing going on is that the Lyris mail list server is running
> under linux emulation. Lyris uses linux threads, which initiate a new
> process under freebsd. Unfortunatley, these thread-processes are not
> reaped so my proc table gets quite full, and I need to stop and
> restart lyris once per hour to keep the number of zombies low.
You might consider switching to majordomo or listproc. Both are
written in perl, and will run natively under FreeBSD.
--
Chris BeHanna
Software Engineer (at yourfit.com)
behanna@zbzoom.net
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