At 14:55 Uhr -0700 29.09.2002, Devin Carraway wrote:
On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 06:05:21PM +0200, Christian Jaeger wrote:
Has anyone else seen those problems?
Yup. On my ibook2 I've seen said behavior from galeon, xmms, privoxy
and gjay at least. They all have threading in common, and the zombie
count from any of these rises in correlation with app events where
thread creation would be expected (fetching a single URL through
privoxy, e.g.)
Yes I've seen it with xmms, too.
I've seen this with Sid from 2.4.18 through benh's 2.4.20-pre0.
I forgot to mention my software configuration: Woody,
2.4.18-elf-lowlat (which means, a small elf fix, and the lowlat
patch, although I don't activate it at runtime anymore so it's pretty
much a standard 2.4.18 kernel), currently libc 2.2.5-11.1 (now
upgrading to the new security fix).
I've talked with the licq author on irc and he thinks that it's a
glibc bug. He mentioned that redhat with 2.2.5 had several strange
problems and also turned up this url:
http://bugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view&pr=3501&database=default
(although it's not clear whether that reporter talks about zombies).
I don't remember having seen the zombies problem more than about half
a year ago, so maybe I should reboot into an older kernel and see
whether that helps, otherwise it sounds like a libc problem.
Christian.
