Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 18:32:30 -0500 From: Scott Robbins <scottro@nyc.rr.com> To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: linux 2.6.16 causes zombie processes with linux-opera Message-ID: <20070128233230.GA4347@mail.scottro.net>
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As near as I can determine, this only happens if I set the sysctl compat.linux.osrelease to 2.6.16. This is on a system running CURRENT (7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #0: Thu Jan 25 20:30:57 EST 2007) When I close linux opera, a zombied process remains. The parent PID is 1. Each time I open and then close opera, one and sometimes two, zombied processes remain. Therefore, if I've been browsing the web on and off for awhile, and do a pgrep opera, I might have a list of 20 or more PIDs, all zombies. Removing the compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 line in /etc/sysctl.conf fixes the problem. (I haven't had this issue with acrobat or any other linux based processes--hrm, on the other hand, I think the only ones I use are opera and acrobat. ) Thanks for any pointers. At present, I've simply commented out the line in /etc/sysctl.conf -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6
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