Hanging sub-processes (scripts)

[Jim Jagielski <ji...@jaguNET.com>]

Every once-in-a-blue-moon we have a script that zombies out and the
httpd subprocess that spawned it never collects it. So the script
process just hangs around in the zombie state. Sending 'kill -9'
to the subprocess is ignored... I'll be digging into the spawn_child
routines in alloc.c to see if anything obvious pops out, but for some
reason the subprocess isn't finishing up the wait.

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            cruel and bad-tempered rodent you ever laid eyes on"

Re: Hanging sub-processes (scripts)

[Dean Gaudet <dg...@arctic.org>]

What does strace/whatever on the httpd child show?  Is this freebsd as
well? 

Dean

On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Jim Jagielski wrote:

> Every once-in-a-blue-moon we have a script that zombies out and the
> httpd subprocess that spawned it never collects it. So the script
> process just hangs around in the zombie state. Sending 'kill -9'
> to the subprocess is ignored... I'll be digging into the spawn_child
> routines in alloc.c to see if anything obvious pops out, but for some
> reason the subprocess isn't finishing up the wait.
> 
> -- 
> ===========================================================================
>    Jim Jagielski   |||   jim@jaguNET.com   |||   http://www.jaguNET.com/
>             "That's no ordinary rabbit... that's the most foul,
>             cruel and bad-tempered rodent you ever laid eyes on"
>