> Not cool that the experimental glibc doesn't fix this... Stan said that the machine became very unstable. I run experimental glibc (2.3.999 and for a short time 2.5-0exp3 build by the debian developer aurelien on my machine) and I had no crash and no zombies.
> -----Original Message----- > From: "Stan Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: 2/20/07 3:08 PM > Subject: Hello! (and zombie processes...) > > Hey all! > > I've just gotten a Compaq XP1000 last Friday and have been working on > getting > it set up to do audio work. I've run into the same problem that I guess a > few people have with zombie processes getting created every time a thread > exits, and I've tried a few ways of getting this sorted out on this box, > including installing the version of libc6.1 from expiremental. That > didn't > go so well, this machine became way unstable. I tried sticking with just > what's in sarge, but the kernel version is just to old to get decent low > latencies with the jack audio server. > > So I've managed to get a build of the glibc-2.3.6.ds1 source package with > the > patch that fixes the zombie process problem (can't remember whose e-mail > that > was in) built and running here on this box I'm setting up. It fixes the > test > code that was submitted for bug 325600, and I'm waiting for all of KDE to > download to see if any zombie processes show up then. > > Anyway, I've noticed that there's mails in the list as recent as December, > so > I figured I'd throw these out there, if anyone's interested in either the > source package, .debs or the steps required to rebuild the source .deb, > let > me know! > > Cheers, > > Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
