Hi everyone,
since 2.4.29 we discovered a strange behaviour. Severall tasks are no longer detected as destroyed. means, these tasks have ended but arn't removed from the processlist. An example from today: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]# date Mon Feb 21 10:14:06 CET 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]# strace -p 33326 attach: ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, ...): No such process [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]# ps aux | grep 29579 33326 29579 0.0 0.2 10696 4332 ? SN 10:11 0:00 -f /home/ajondoco root 19168 0.0 0.0 1768 628 pts/0 S 10:15 0:00 grep 29579 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]# strace -p 33326 attach: ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, ...): No such process [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]# As you can see the process in question "29579" was started 10:11 , but as finished its activity already. After 10 minutes it's still not removed from the processlist and it's not detected as a zombie. the task was an Apache 1.3.3 child over a wrapper calling php with -f option. We think it's unimportant if its forked or execev(),because on another maschine it was not even an apache invoked. Some of the these processes enter zombie state, but were never fully removed ! Any ideas why it and what happens? mfG. M.Schwarz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
