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Subject: Re: runit not collecting zombies
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On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Alex Efros wrote:

> Also I see a lot of zombie 'sshd' on my servers. So, I don't think this
> issue is in my perl scripts or other applications - it's somewhere in
> runit and/or kernel.

I don't think that's been established. The fact that the zombies aren't 
reaped seems to be an issue with runit and/or kernel. The fact that you 
have such applications re-parented to process 1 when/if they should be 
supervised is likely to be an issue in your perl scripts or other 
applications.