From: "Radek Podgorny" <radek@podgorny.cz>
To: "Alex Efros" <powerman@powerman.asdfgroup.com>,
supervision@list.skarnet.org
Subject: Re: runit not collecting zombies
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:53:26 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46681.4354564578$1189601620@news.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707152209260.11383@e-smith.charlieb.ott.istop.com>
Hi! Any progress on this? Alex, have you found at least a workaround? This
is getting really annoying as I have to reboot my servers manually (ssh
can't fork for remote login)... :-(
Radek P.
>
>
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Alex Efros wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 07:23:13PM -0400, Charlie Brady wrote:
>>> So there are two problems there - the processes which are outliving
>>> their
>>> parents, and runit as process 1. Most people here seem to be ignoring
>>> the
>>> first problem, and instead are just looking for a magic fix by someone
>>> solving problem 2.
>>
>> Ohh. Okay, okay, I think we all agree with you about 'generating
>> zombies'
>> is a Bad Thing (tm). But real world is slightly different from ideal
>> world.
>> In real world we've a 'zombie processes', which are part of *NIX
>> architecture, and which can't be solved by just stopping generating
>> zombies - because there a lot of existing applications (like OpenSSH)
>> which already generate zombies, and because there exists some cases when
>> zombies may and will be generated anyway.
>
> Sure they will. But in every case except a daemon which was given a term
> signal I'd say it is a bug.
>
> I've seen no evidence that openssh generates zombies.
>
>> In this situation, the Right Thing is solve this issue between runit and
>> linux kernel.
>
> That's one of the right thing, yes.
>
>> So. If this is a race condition bug in linux kernel 2.6.20, how to debug
>> it?
>
> Have a look at SystemTap.
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-12 12:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 113+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-24 23:07 Radek Podgorny
2007-05-26 10:35 ` Alex Efros
2007-05-26 10:45 ` Alex Efros
2007-05-26 12:55 ` Charlie Brady
2007-05-26 13:03 ` Alex Efros
2007-05-26 17:01 ` Paul Jarc
2007-06-02 14:55 ` Alex Efros
2007-06-03 11:10 ` Gerrit Pape
2007-06-03 14:33 ` Alex Efros
2007-06-03 16:31 ` Gerrit Pape
2007-06-11 13:11 ` Alex Efros
2007-06-18 13:45 ` Alex Efros
2007-06-19 18:13 ` Gerrit Pape
2007-06-19 19:07 ` Alex Efros
2007-06-20 16:23 ` Gerrit Pape
2007-06-20 16:57 ` Alex Efros
2007-06-20 18:35 ` Gerrit Pape
2007-06-23 4:42 ` Alex Efros
2007-06-26 9:59 ` Gerrit Pape
2007-07-07 7:16 ` Alex Efros
2007-07-07 18:13 ` Charlie Brady
2007-07-07 19:12 ` Alex Efros
2007-07-12 14:21 ` Charlie Brady
2007-07-12 14:41 ` Alex Efros
2007-07-12 14:45 ` Charlie Brady
2007-07-12 14:57 ` Alex Efros
2007-07-12 14:42 ` Charlie Brady
2007-07-12 14:43 ` Charlie Brady
2007-07-12 14:49 ` Alex Efros
2007-07-12 15:11 ` Charlie Brady
2007-07-12 15:15 ` Alex Efros
2007-07-12 15:40 ` Charlie Brady
2007-07-15 14:47 ` Alex Efros
2007-07-15 19:07 ` Alex Efros
2007-07-15 20:18 ` George Georgalis
2007-07-15 20:31 ` Paul Jarc
2007-07-15 22:35 ` George Georgalis
2007-07-15 23:06 ` Paul Jarc
2007-07-15 23:23 ` Charlie Brady
2007-07-16 0:09 ` Alex Efros
2007-07-16 2:11 ` Charlie Brady
2007-09-12 12:53 ` Radek Podgorny [this message]
[not found] ` <47939.::ffff:77.75.72.5.1189601606.squirrel@mail.podgorny.cz>
2007-09-12 13:55 ` Charlie Brady
2007-09-12 14:35 ` Alex Efros
2007-09-12 14:55 ` Charlie Brady
2007-09-12 15:00 ` Alex Efros
2007-09-12 16:02 ` Charlie Brady
2007-09-12 16:10 ` Radek Podgorny
2007-09-12 17:22 ` Alex Efros
2007-09-12 17:40 ` Charlie Brady
2007-09-12 18:18 ` Alex Efros
2007-09-12 19:07 ` Charlie Brady
2007-09-12 19:13 ` Alex Efros
2007-09-12 19:18 ` Charlie Brady
2007-09-12 19:30 ` Alex Efros
2007-09-12 19:37 ` Charlie Brady
2007-09-15 13:36 ` Alex Efros
2007-09-15 13:57 ` Alex Efros
2007-09-15 15:20 ` Charlie Brady
2007-09-15 15:28 ` Alex Efros
2007-09-15 15:47 ` Charlie Brady
2007-09-15 16:02 ` Alex Efros
2007-09-15 15:49 ` Charlie Brady
2007-09-15 15:55 ` Alex Efros
2007-09-15 16:02 ` Charlie Brady
2007-09-15 15:36 ` Alex Efros
2007-09-15 15:58 ` Charlie Brady
2007-09-15 14:03 ` Alex Efros
2007-09-17 7:56 ` Gerrit Pape
2007-09-17 9:07 ` Radek Podgorny
2007-09-17 11:59 ` Alex Efros
2007-09-18 8:14 ` Gerrit Pape
2007-09-18 11:33 ` Alex Efros
2007-09-18 11:45 ` Laurent Bercot
2011-02-15 13:12 ` [LONG] " Laurent Bercot
2011-02-15 15:00 ` Alex Efros
2011-02-15 15:22 ` Laurent Bercot
2007-09-12 16:04 ` Radek Podgorny
[not found] ` <35517.::ffff:77.75.72.5.1189613042.squirrel@mail.podgorny.cz>
2007-09-12 17:04 ` Alex Efros
2007-09-12 19:38 ` Mike Buland
2007-09-12 20:28 ` Alex Efros
2007-09-12 20:38 ` Alex Efros
2007-09-13 1:05 ` Mike Buland
2007-09-13 8:58 ` Radek Podgorny
[not found] ` <50411.::ffff:77.75.72.5.1189673890.squirrel@mail.podgorny.cz>
2007-09-13 10:57 ` Alex Efros
2007-09-13 12:06 ` Alex Efros
2007-09-13 14:31 ` Radek Podgorny
[not found] ` <51910.::ffff:77.75.72.5.1189693860.squirrel@mail.podgorny.cz>
2007-09-13 14:51 ` Alex Efros
2007-07-16 2:24 ` George Georgalis
2007-07-01 8:43 ` Radek Podgorny
2007-07-02 8:28 ` Gerrit Pape
2007-07-02 11:23 ` Radek Podgorny
2007-07-02 12:14 ` Gerrit Pape
2007-07-02 12:42 ` Radek Podgorny
2007-07-07 4:54 ` Alex Efros
2007-06-20 19:57 ` Charlie Brady
2008-02-25 7:25 ` Alex Efros
2008-02-25 14:57 ` Charlie Brady
2008-02-25 15:23 ` Radek Podgorny
[not found] ` <59012.::ffff:77.75.72.226.1203952988.squirrel@mail.podgorny.cz>
2008-02-25 15:26 ` George Georgalis
2008-02-25 15:32 ` Charlie Brady
2008-02-25 16:17 ` Alex Efros
2008-02-25 17:20 ` Mike Buland
2008-02-25 15:27 ` Radek Podgorny
[not found] ` <34616.::ffff:77.75.72.226.1203953244.squirrel@mail.podgorny.cz>
2008-02-25 16:15 ` Alex Efros
2008-02-27 8:19 ` Bernhard Graf
2008-02-27 8:36 ` Alex Efros
2008-02-27 8:58 ` Bernhard Graf
[not found] ` <F694D808C0BB4890A12C565F68B9A691@home.internal>
2008-02-25 16:24 ` rehan khan
2008-02-25 16:27 ` Charlie Brady
[not found] ` <54B6D6D6D32D4DB685F8CA9A836076D7@home.internal>
2008-02-25 17:11 ` rehan khan
2008-02-25 19:13 ` Charlie Brady
2008-10-21 21:46 ` Alex Efros
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