On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Martin Pala <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> the temporary zombie is "feature" - explained in monit manual (
> http://www.mmonit.com/monit/documentation/monit.html#program_status_testing
> ):
> --8<--
> The asynchronous nature of the program check allows for non-blocking
> behavior in the current Monit design, but it comes with a side-effect: when
> the program has finished executing and is waiting for Monit to collect the
> result, it becomes a so-called "zombie" process. A zombie process does not
> consume any system resources (only the PID remains in use) and it is under
> Monit's control; The zombie process is removed from the system as soon as
> Monit collects the exit status. This means that every "check program" will
> be associated with either a running process or a temporary zombie. This
> unwanted zombie side-effect will be removed in a later release of Monit.
> --8<--
>
> We'll fix this with the refactoring of test scheduler.
>
> Regards,
> Martin
>
>
>
is that possible that the zombie are'nt disappearing ?



>  On Apr 30, 2013, at 6:38 PM, sven falempin <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > HEllo,
> >
> > My monit daemon is creating zombie, is there a way to find the
> responsible check script ?
> >
> > machine:~/# monit -V
> > This is Monit version 5.5
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> > cheers :-)
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