Duncan Barclay wrote: > On 01-Oct-2002 Lars Eggert wrote: >> >>I've been running the guidescope web ad blocker >>(http://www.guidescope.com/home/) as a Linux binary under FreeBSD for a >>long time. The thing seems to fork a child for each web request it proxies. >> >>Under -current, it seems that the child processes become zombies, and >>the proxy stops working once 1024 or so accumulate. The zombies don't go >>away when parent process finishes, they stick around until reboot. > > Is this http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=42457 related? It > is for stable but I belive that the same behaviour is present in -current > and it may manifest itself differently.
Don't know - I know the symptom, but haven't looked into finding the cause; guidescope is closed source. Lars -- Lars Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> USC Information Sciences Institute
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