On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:13:09AM +1300, Atom Smasher wrote:
> i've got mrxvt-devel-0.5.4_1 on FreeBSD 7.2 and mrxvt is like a zombie
> machine. i've got hundreds of zombies and they're all owned by mrxvt:
>
> // how many zombies?
> % ps ajx | egrep -w Z | wc -l
> 553
>
> // what PID is the parent of those zombies?
> % ps ajx | egrep -w Z | awk '{print $3}' | sort -u
> 776
>
> // what process is that PID?
> % ps x | egrep -w 776
> 776 ?? S 1:47.13 /usr/local/bin/mrxvt
>
> it seems like a good way to generate zombies is try using tab
> completion (bash-4.0.33, zsh-4.3.10_2). in other terminal emulators
> that doesn't cause problems. if anyone needs any more info, just let
> me know.I remember an old version of mrxvt having zombies because we forgot to do waitpid(). However I think this has been fixed, since I don't see it anymore. Can you reproduce it with a minimal config file (e.g. -cf /dev/null), and send me a simple command I can run to reproduce it. E.g., if you can load a vanilla bash (or better still plain old /bin/sh) and send me a command that when typed generates one or more zombies, then, if I can reproduce it, I can try and fix it. Be sure you test with the latest revision from subversion. GI -- 'Idealist' -- One who upon observing that a rose smells better than a cabbage concludes that it will also make better soup.
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