Comment #20 on issue 23778 by Robert.Bradbury: Chrome fails to collect defunct/zombie processes remaining from closed tabs/windows. http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=23778
I've been running chrome 4.0.251.0 (32167) [the latest Gentoo release] for about 90 minutes and I've already got 16 defunct processes. Some testing seems to suggest that if one has tabs running for a while (either a gmail inbox tab or even a google tab) and closes the tab it will create a defunct process. There are no waitpid() errors in the log file but there are 18 "[XPCOM] Failed to get the service manager" errors present (2 more than the number of defunct processes). Indeed, the number of XPCOM error messages in saved log files seems to correlate well with the number of defunct processes I was seeing. What does XPCOM stand for? -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings -- Automated mail from issue updates at http://crbug.com/ Subscription options: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-bugs
