Re: [mp1] text-book forking code still producing zombies

2004-10-15 Thread Scot Martin
Hi Mark, I don't know if this will help, but out of the numerous ways I tried this is the only way I could solve the zombie issue in MP2 on Solaris 8: use POSIX 'WNOHANG'; use POSIX ":sys_wait_h"; my($kid); do { $kid=waitpid(-1,WNOHANG); } until $kid <= 0; if(!(defined ($pid = fork( {

Re: [mp1] text-book forking code still producing zombies

2004-10-04 Thread Stas Bekman
Mark Stosberg wrote: Hello, I've been enjoying the performance benefits of mod_perl, and appreciate the help of the contributors here. Now I'm investigating why our production code is producing zombies. I'll post the key parts of my code below. First, some observations: 1. Zombies appear to be