From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 1 09:01:31 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 773AD16A4CE for ; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 09:01:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gascom.ru (mail.gascom.ru [217.17.160.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8FE4543D54 for ; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 09:01:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from asa@gascom.ru) Received: (qmail 60869 invoked from network); 1 Sep 2004 09:01:26 -0000 Received: from asa.gascom.net.ru (HELO ?192.168.100.29?) (192.168.100.29) by mail.gascom.ru with SMTP; 1 Sep 2004 09:01:26 -0000 From: Sergey Akifyev To: Seva Gluschenko In-Reply-To: <200409010830.i818UXJC017144@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200409010830.i818UXJC017144@freefall.freebsd.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-2kdi3IVRGv8X/wAO7x+2" Organization: JSC Gascom Message-Id: <1094029290.774.745.camel@asa.gascom.net.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 13:01:31 +0400 cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/71226: processes list is broken X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 09:01:31 -0000 --=-2kdi3IVRGv8X/wAO7x+2 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 12:30, Seva Gluschenko wrote: > >> > >> Yep, they're in fact zombies, but I have no much interest to kill the= ir > >> parent: Daemon-zombies... Looks like a poltergates :))) BTW, killing init would be helpful. If processes will not die this way, you will see error message on console during shutdown. > >=20 > > And what do you expect from FreeBSD? > =20 > I can't understand your question here. Did you notice the parent,=20 > /sbin/init? Isn't the job of init to finish zombies? The process isn't=20 > actually running, ktrace produces zero lentgh file - but somewhere in=20 > kernel (?) it is considered running - why? If it is kblanscrn.kss who=20 > sucks, why it doesn't even do NOOP? But, I think you understand my initial question: I suspected bad-coded parent process. Now I see this is ps or kernel failing. So, a couple of diagnostic tests: 1) check if zombie-structures was allocated in kernel # vmstat -m|fgrep zombie 2) what is your threading library in /etc/libmap.conf ? Whatewer it is, try to change it and look what happens. (I suspect KSE-related problems) 3) what does sockstat think about theese processes? --=20 regards, Sergey Akifyev JSC Gascom PGP key available from: ftp://ftp.gascom.ru/pub/PGP-keys/asa.txt --=-2kdi3IVRGv8X/wAO7x+2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBNY/qbu06QwmNwNsRAoYmAJ9gTerNs7NQquM7SmDhgax2Pi2dcwCfeTch 4LucGr2yh4jECqSmH3oQIPs= =2P7i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-2kdi3IVRGv8X/wAO7x+2--