DO NOT REPLY [Bug 23911] New: - CGI processes left defunct/zombie under 2.0.47

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CGI processes left defunct/zombie under 2.0.47

           Summary: CGI processes left defunct/zombie under 2.0.47
           Product: Apache httpd-2.0
           Version: 2.0.47
          Platform: Sun
        OS/Version: Solaris
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Critical
          Priority: Other
         Component: Core
        AssignedTo: bugs@httpd.apache.org
        ReportedBy: dcook@cookware.com


With the latest version of Apache (2.0.47) we are seeing occassional defunct/zombie cgi's.  The 
cgi's can't be killed (won't die with kill -9 pid) but do die if we kill the parent httpd process.

This seems to me to be identical to bug report 21737 --- but with the 2.0.47 version (21737 was 
for the 1... version).  Since their fix was to alloc.c, and I don't see an alloc.c to compare too, I'm 
seeking help on fixing this problem.

The zombies are not taking up cpu cycles, of course... but do tend to deplete the process count 
pool. We've counted as high as 60 zombies in one situation.  Last night there were 8.

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