suddenly >88 processes

[Jeff Mitchell]

I've seen this behavior on Helix before.  In fact, I can easily  
reproduce it...just load up a song with Helix engine, and then start  
seeking back and forth in the song rapidly.  Forkbombs ahoy.  Never  
got a good backtrace because half the time I ended up just killing X.


Quoting paulc2 at optonline.net:

> just noting that this trace does not seem to be engine related:
>
> The forked ones had backtraces that looked like this:
>
> #0  0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
> #1  0x425d0fbb in __waitpid_nocancel () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
> #2  0x0804e8c5 in amaroK::Crash::crashHandler ()
> #3  <signal handler called>
> #4  0x42da2802 in QGListIterator::QGListIterator () from
> /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
> #5  0x42ae7e62 in QObject::child () from /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
> #6  0x0804f3a5 in Debug::indent ()
> #7  0x0804dae4 in QGList::count ()
> #8  0x0804dc53 in amaroK::Crash::crashHandler ()
> #9  <signal handler called>
> #10 0x42da2802 in QGListIterator::QGListIterator () from
> /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
> #11 0x42ae7e62 in QObject::child () from /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
> #12 0x0804f3a5 in Debug::indent ()
> #13 0x0804dae4 in QGList::count ()
> #14 0x0804dc53 in amaroK::Crash::crashHandler ()
> #15 <signal handler called>
> #16 0x42da2802 in QGListIterator::QGListIterator () from
> /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
> #17 0x42ae7e62 in QObject::child () from /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
> #18 0x0804f3a5 in Debug::indent ()
> #19 0x0804dae4 in QGList::count ()
> #20 0x0804dc53 in amaroK::Crash::crashHandler ()
> #21 <signal handler called>
> #22 0x42da2802 in QGListIterator::QGListIterator () from
> /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
> #23 0x42ae7e62 in QObject::child () from /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
> #24 0x0804f3a5 in Debug::indent ()
> #25 0x0804dae4 in QGList::count ()
> #26 0x0804dc53 in amaroK::Crash::crashHandler ()
> #27 <signal handler called>
>
>
>
> Quoting Colin Brace <cb at lim.nl>:
>
>> On 6/28/06, Martin Aumueller <aumueller at uni-koeln.de> wrote:
>>
>>> Could this be related to this bug?
>>> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126397
>>
>> Looks very similar. Just before it happened, I also heard the the
>> player start "skipping" on a track I was playing.
>>
>> I am also using the helix engine on my FC5 system.
>>
>> --
>>  Colin Brace
>>  Amsterdam
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