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Date:      Sat, 24 Aug 2002 23:13:40 +0700
From:      budsz <budsz@kumprang.or.id>
To:        "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>
Cc:        FBSDQ <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: How kill Zombie
Message-ID:  <20020824161340.GA34055@kumprang.kumprang.or.id>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20020824093510.03a345e0@mail.sage-one.net>
References:  <20020824074050.GA506@kumprang.kumprang.or.id> <3.0.5.32.20020824093510.03a345e0@mail.sage-one.net>

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On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 09:35:10AM -0500, Jack L. Stone wrote:
>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.

Okay, thx for all information.


-- 
budsz

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