Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 25 Apr 1998 02:32:00 +1000 (EST) | From | Damien Miller <> | Subject | Zombies in 2.1.98 |
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I am still seeing persistant zombie processes stuck in do_exit in 2.1.98 SMP.
It seems to only affect processes which are reaped by wait4, this seems to include sendmail, ans thus my process table fills up pretty quickly after a few runs of fetchmail :(
The PPID of the zombies is shown as 0 by ps. The real parent process behaves normally. The problem does not manifest with a UP kernel (this is a dual-processor machine, with only one processor).
I have not had any experience diagnosing kernel bugs, so any suggestion on how to further track this would be appreciated.
Regards, Damien Miller
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