Issue #9757 has been reported by Steve Shipway. ---------------------------------------- Bug #9757: Child processes of puppet agent sometimes become zombies https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/9757
Author: Steve Shipway Status: Unreviewed Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: Target version: Affected Puppet version: 2.6.8 Keywords: Branch: There seems to be a problem on our system where, when the puppet agent is running in daemon mde, it does not correctly wait for the child processes spawned by facter or exec resources and as a consequence we get a huge number of zombies. Restarting the agent clears the zombies, of course. I cannot duplicate this at will, sadly. The zombies in question on our system were iptables (this was spawned by facter to get iptables rules) and snmpget (spawned by an exec only-if rule in a resource from a module). These appeared over several dozen servers for a few days, and then stopped appearing. It may be connected to when an exec or fact that spawns a process times out before completing -- these were on slow hosts and logs show errors on exec resources, but this is just a guess. Possibly the puppet agent should make an occasional general 'wait' for any zombies to prevent this? -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en.
