On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 13:50, David F. Skoll wrote: > That doesn't make too much sense. Are you seeing defunct "mimedefang" > threads, or defunct "mimedefang.pl" Perl processes? If the former, then > doing anything with md-mx-ctrl is useless, because the mimedefang threads > are controlled by libmilter, and the multiplexor knows nothing about them. > > If you're seeing defunct mimedefang.pl slaves, then there's a serious > bug somewhere -- the multiplexor is supposed to catch SIGCHLD and reap > terminated slaves. I strongly doubt this is failing, because if it > were failing, the multiplexor would eventually fail completely because > it would be unwilling to start new slaves. If a slave hasn't been > reaped yet, the multiplexor thinks it's still running. > In my case the defunct 'defang' processes are subprocesses of mimedefang process and you are right the multiplexor doesn't know anything about these.
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