Re: runit not collecting zombies

[Radek Podgorny <radek@podgorny.cz>]

Well, actually I'm the original poster. Unfortunately I can't do any
tests since the affected are all in production and on my testing setups,
the problem does not occur. :-(

The number of processes doesn't have to be "huge" and they don't need to
be "short lived" either (AFAIK). The parent pid of the zombies is 1.

As I said before, I can't do any thorough testing so I can't give you
much feedback about the patches. I can only gather "passive" info
(versions, ...).

All my systems are Gentoo. Some of them are amd64, some x86. The problem
appears on both architectures. My "unstable" laptop is amd64 and does
not suffer from the problem. So it may seem to be problem of different
versions of packages (glibc, whatever...). Unfortunately, some of the
"stable" system do not have the problem. :-( So the only difference may
be the kernel which I can check if you want... ...or something
completely different. :-(

Sincerely
Radek Podgorny


Gerrit Pape wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 10:43:19AM +0200, Radek Podgorny wrote:
>> Hi! What is the status of this?  Did the "reap zombies every 5secs"
>> help? One of my servers just passed away again and I really need this
>> issue to be fixed... :-(
> 
> Not sure, no response from Alex yet.  I didn't knew that there's someone
> else having this problem.  What triggers the problem on your system?,
> also a huge amount of short running processes that detached to have
> parent pid 1?  Did you check ppid of the zombies?  Can you give some
> information on how it can be reproduced?
> 
> Thanks, Gerrit.
>