I'm willing to bet this is due to a badly-written PHP script. I see these occasionally on our production systems. Every time I've seen them, it's boiled down to some questionable web forum software.
Do you see the zombie processes go away after a short while on their own? init(8) should reap zombies evenutally, but in most cases (on our systems) when the Apache httpd child running gets terminated over time, these disappear as well. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 06:31:44PM +0200, Alessandro De Zorzi wrote: > After installed suphp a large form with checkbox do not > work fine, I discover this process in top: > > 11350 3164 16 0 0 0 0 Z 3 0.0 0:00.09 php-cgi > <defunct> > 11351 3164 16 0 0 0 0 Z 3 0.0 0:00.08 php-cgi > <defunct> > > where can I starting to resolve my problem? > > thanks in advance > > Alessandro De Zorzi > > > _______________________________________________ > suPHP mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.marsching.biz/mailman/listinfo/suphp _______________________________________________ suPHP mailing list [email protected] http://lists.marsching.biz/mailman/listinfo/suphp
