Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 09:35:10 -0500 From: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> To: Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar>, budsz <budsz@kumprang.or.id> Cc: FBSDQ <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How kill Zombie Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20020824093510.03a345e0@mail.sage-one.net> In-Reply-To: <20020824111058.V95265-100000@localhost> References: <20020824074050.GA506@kumprang.kumprang.or.id>
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At 11:16 AM 8.24.2002 -0300, Fernando Gleiser wrote: >On Sat, 24 Aug 2002, budsz wrote: > >> > >> > 1. kill the parent process. >> > 2. fix the code in the parent process to clean up after itself. >> >> Thx be 4 >> >> If I choise no 1 options of couse I must kill qmail parent process >> that's impossible :-), Options no 2 maybe I choise but how..? I only >> change qmail-queue to qmail-queue-real then I copy >> /usr/local/sbin/amavis to /var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue that all. >> when I recofiguration with old config..zombie appeare. >> Have any suggestion for this case? maybe you've experience with amavis >> perl + qmail. > >Keep in mind that if you have a busy server, there can be a considerable delay >between the time the process exit(2) and the time the parent calls wait(2). >In that window of time, the process shows up as zombie. Once the parent >calls wait(2), it gets cleaned up. > >If you only see one zombie, and each time you see it, you see its PID is >different, don't worry about it. > > > > Fer > >> >> TIA >> But, some zombies may never be cleared up as with my earlier example of the one generated by apcupsd on my system(s). I just leaned to ignore it as it doesn't bother anything. No doubt the parent isn't doing the cleanup. I reported it to the creator and that's all I can do in this case since I don't work with code. One of these zombies is created on every machine running apcupsd. Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net jackstone@sage-one.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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