OK, starting pidgin with full debug and w/o the unavailable domain I figured out:
After start I had 3 zobies, after waiting for a long period of time it stayes at the 3 zombies, i.e. no new ones were generated after the start period. Greping the full log for "DNS": (12:33:19) dnsquery: Performing DNS lookup for api.login.icq.net (12:33:19) dnsquery: Performing DNS lookup for irc.freenode.net (12:33:19) dnsquery: Performing DNS lookup for irc.mozilla.org (12:33:19) dnsquery: Performing DNS lookup for 192.168.0.1 (12:33:19) dns: Created new DNS child 4517, there are now 1 children. (12:33:19) dns: Successfully sent DNS request to child 4517 (12:33:19) dns: Created new DNS child 4519, there are now 2 children. (12:33:19) dns: Successfully sent DNS request to child 4519 (12:33:19) dns: Created new DNS child 4520, there are now 3 children. (12:33:19) dns: Successfully sent DNS request to child 4520 (12:33:19) dnsquery: Performing DNS lookup for 192.168.0.1 (12:33:19) dnsquery: Performing DNS lookup for 192.168.0.1 (12:33:20) dnsquery: Performing DNS lookup for api.icq.net (12:33:20) dns: Successfully sent DNS request to child 4517 (12:33:26) dnsquery: Performing DNS lookup for 205.188.11.86 (12:33:27) dnsquery: Performing DNS lookup for 205.188.11.25 (12:33:27) dnsquery: Performing DNS lookup for 64.12.73.194 => I *guess* it's related to the 3 DNS childs - at least the number is matching perfectly to the number of zombies... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pidgin in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1245666 Title: Pidgin is creating zombies with 13.10 Status in “pidgin” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: After upgrading to Kubuntu 13.10 pidgin is constantly creating new zombies. E.g. after an uptime of roughly 4 hours: $ ps aux | grep Z USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND cm 2589 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 17:46 0:00 [pidgin] <defunct> cm 3045 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 17:47 0:00 [pidgin] <defunct> cm 3106 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 17:48 0:00 [pidgin] <defunct> cm 3236 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 17:50 0:00 [pidgin] <defunct> cm 5760 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 17:54 0:00 [pidgin] <defunct> cm 5788 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 18:02 0:00 [pidgin] <defunct> cm 6405 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 18:12 0:00 [pidgin] <defunct> cm 6501 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 18:22 0:00 [pidgin] <defunct> cm 6519 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 18:32 0:00 [pidgin] <defunct> cm 6543 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 18:42 0:00 [pidgin] <defunct> cm 6580 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 18:52 0:00 [pidgin] <defunct> cm 6619 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 19:02 0:00 [pidgin] <defunct> cm 6645 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 19:12 0:00 [pidgin] <defunct> cm 6672 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 19:22 0:00 [pidgin] <defunct> cm 6691 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 19:32 0:00 [pidgin] <defunct> cm 6757 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 19:42 0:00 [pidgin] <defunct> cm 6846 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 19:52 0:00 [pidgin] <defunct> cm 6869 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 20:01 0:00 [pidgin] <defunct> cm 6889 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 20:11 0:00 [pidgin] <defunct> cm 6914 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 20:21 0:00 [pidgin] <defunct> cm 6931 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 20:31 0:00 [pidgin] <defunct> cm 6948 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 20:41 0:00 [pidgin] <defunct> cm 6972 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 20:51 0:00 [pidgin] <defunct> cm 6992 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 21:01 0:00 [pidgin] <defunct> cm 7015 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 21:11 0:00 [pidgin] <defunct> cm 7036 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 21:20 0:00 [pidgin] <defunct> cm 7121 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 21:30 0:00 [pidgin] <defunct> cm 7223 0.0 0.0 10984 940 pts/0 S+ 21:38 0:00 grep --color=auto Z To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin/+bug/1245666/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
