From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 19 11:57:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from yertle.kciLink.com (yertle.kcilink.com [216.194.193.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B066E37B406 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 11:57:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from khera@kcilink.com) Received: by yertle.kciLink.com (Postfix, from userid 100) id 3A50A2E463; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:57:49 -0400 (EDT) To: questions@freebsd.org Newsgroups: ml.freebsd.questions Subject: Re: opera & zombie processes References: From: Vivek Khera Date: 19 Jun 2001 14:57:48 -0400 Message-ID: Organization: Khera Communications, Inc., Rockville, MD Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Posted-To: ml.freebsd.questions Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to ml.freebsd.questions as well. >>>>> "MB" == Marco Beishuizen writes: MB> I have a question about Opera 5.0 under FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE. When MB> I'm browsing with Opera a lot of zombie processes are MB> created. This goes on until the maximum number of processes are MB> reached. After that no process can be started. I found I had a similar issue with Lyris running under Linux emulation (until they came up with a FreeBSD native version). What was happening was that Lyris was creating and destroying dozens of threads. Under linux emulation, these are kernel threads, and treated as processes by the kernel. However, the linux apps don't see fit to reap these processes, as linux does it automagically. The only real fix is to make the app reap the zombies periodically, or convince opera to come out with a fbsd native version. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-240-453-8497 AIM: vivekkhera Y!: vivek_khera http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message