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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

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