Tom Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Now that we're all ramping up Alpha support :-) > > Does anyone have any linuxthreads experience. I've been trying to track > down > the thread "zombie" issue on my own, but I'm no libc developer. > > I'm somewhat lost in my debugging - I keep getting the impression that > certain > exiting pthreads never get their resources freed by the thread manager > (obvious, huh). > However, some threads do seem to do the "right" thing and have their > resources freed, > so there isn't a 1-to-1 correlation between threads threads that have exited > and zombies. > > I'm wondering if somehow a thread that implicitly exits (via a return) isn't > hitting the > "pthread_exit" code whereas one that explicitly calls it does. > > Has anyone else been looking at this?
I have not been looking at it, but I have certainly noticed it. I have
thousands of defunct processes from clamav-milter and mysqld...
So this is a recent libc problem? It should be possible to track it
down by looking through the relevant libc changes. The problem appeared
(for me) only a few months ago.
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Cheers,
Bob McElrath [Univ. of California at Davis, Department of Physics]
"One of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen
these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding
fathers used in the great struggle for independence." --Charles A. Beard
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