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Date:      Wed, 21 Feb 2007 21:00:35 +0300 (MSK)
From:      Maxim Konovalov <maxim@macomnet.ru>
To:        LI Xin <delphij@delphij.net>
Cc:        Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>, hackers@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Zombie Jails - why don't they disappear?
Message-ID:  <20070221205826.D79626@mp2.macomnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <45DC7F94.7010104@delphij.net>
References:  <20070221171816.GB2202@genius.tao.org.uk> <45DC7F94.7010104@delphij.net>

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On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, 01:21+0800, LI Xin wrote:

> Josef Karthauser wrote:
> > I've got zombie jails on a freebsd 6.x box (currently 6.2).
> > There are no processes running under any of them, but they still appear
> > on the jail list:
> >
> > server# jls
> >    JID  IP Address      Hostname                      Path
> >      2  xxx.xxx.1.234    host1.domain		/data/jails/host1
> >      1  xxx.xxx.1.235    host2.domain		/data/jails/host2
> >
> > I'm flumoxed as to why they're still there.  There aren't any processes
> > running in them:
> >
> > server# ps -auxww | grep J
> >
> > Any ideas why they are still hanging around in the jail list?
>
> Sockets (stuck in a state which can not be released immediately?) or
> other resources?  I really think that this is a bug, though.

It was discussed millon times already and there is at least one open
PR:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/89528

-- 
Maxim Konovalov



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