Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 19:54:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Marco Beishuizen <mbeis@planet.nl> To: "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: opera & zombie processes Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106201952270.3458-100000@FreeBSD.net> In-Reply-To: <46AEB8C1B628D511969200508B6FE42A66840A@1upmc-msx6.isdip.upmc.edu>
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I'm also using the tar from the opera site and running it in linux emulation. Looking further............ Regards, Marco ------------------------------------------------- mbeis@planet.nl FreeBSD-4.0-RELEASE http://www.freebsd.org ------------------------------------------------- On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Person, Roderick wrote: > If this is the cause of the problem with opera is there something else in > conjuction that causes this. > It other words linux emulation with and I have been using Opera for at > least 6 months and I have noticed this problem at all. I'm not using the > port but the tar from opera.com. > > Roderick P. Person > Programmer II > personrp@ccbh.com > http://www.ccbh.com > > "Fascism is coming back, baby!" > - Kevin Bacon - JFK > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Vivek Khera [mailto:khera@kcilink.com] > > Sent: June 19, 2001 2:58 PM > > To: questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: Re: opera & zombie processes > > > > > > The following message is a courtesy copy of an article > > that has been posted to ml.freebsd.questions as well. > > > > >>>>> "MB" == Marco Beishuizen <mbeis@planet.nl> 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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