- Franky Van Liedekerke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
| I'm seeing a lot of zombies in my process list (qmail 1.03 with anti
| spam from Sam). Is this a known problem or do I need some patch?
- Harald Hanche-Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
| [...] you need to look at the parent processes to get some idea
| what is going on.
- Franky Van Liedekerke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
| This is my complete qmail process list:
>From your list I extracted the following typical example:
qmaild 546 3841 0 Mar 13 ? 0:00 qmail-smtpd
qmailq 549 546 0 0:00 <defunct>
qmaild 550 546 0 Mar 13 ? 0:00 qmail-filter BODY
My guess is that the defunct process was a qmail-queue process which
has either finished or been killed. For the processes to hang around
this long, the antispam patch must somehow have disabled the timeout
mechanism in qmail-smtpd somehow. Another possible explanation is
that qmail-smtpd and qmail-filter are deadlocked, but only Sam or
someone else reasonably familiar with his patch can tell for sure.
- Harald
