Hi Mark, They stay running forever and the parent process is qmail-queue. Now I have 162 defunct process. Today I will try to alter rlim_fd_cur to 64 (the number of file descriptors - Today the value is 1024. 64 was the original value) and keep the rlim_fd_max to 2048, like it is today and I will reboot the machines. I read somewhere that isn't a good idea change the default current limit of file descriptors like I did. They suggest only change the max number of file descriptor. Well, is just a guess, but I think that won't cause any damage to try ;-) Thanks for your attention ! Regards. > > The problem is the fact that I'm having too much defunct process. > > Usually I have between 350-500 process running by machine. From that, > > normally I have between 90-120 defunct process per machine. > > Do they stay forever, or do they go away? > > Which qmail process is the parent? > > I have seen Solaris 2.x systems where processes do stay around forever, > but I have not seen in on, eg, FreeBSD. > > Regards.
