On 01-Oct-2002 Lars Eggert wrote: > 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.
So is matlab that I tracked it down with. I used ktrace and linux_kdump from ports to watch the thread creation and destruction. It took an evening. > Lars > -- > Lars Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> USC Information Sciences Institute -- ________________________________________________________________________ Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned. [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Steven King To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
