On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 11:06:25AM -0500, Daniel Ruggeri wrote: > I was taking a look at a server that had a handful of zombies and came > to see they are caused by rotatelogs. It seems pretty straight forward > why - I am calling gzip post-rotate to compress the log file and child > cleanup only happens during the post_rotate function, but before > apr_proc_create for this rotation. So, effectively, you will have a > zombie process from time_child_dies to next_rotation. > > I would like to get rid of those zombie processes sooner but am wary to > call apr_proc_wait_all_procs very often... I don't know what the expense > of doing that would be. > > So... I'm seeking advice for the best option here:
It's free... dunno why I didn't think of this before. http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1587255 Regards, Joe
