Zombies

[Bill Moseley]

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 12:59:28PM -0500, Nils Schlupp wrote:
> On Monday 26 May 2008 12:50:45 Bill Moseley wrote:
> > I'm seeing a lot of zobmie processes:
> >
> >  6685 ?        S      0:06 amarokapp
> >  6717 ?        Z      0:00  \_ [ruby] <defunct>
> >  6718 ?        Z      0:00  \_ [ruby] <defunct>
> >
> > Is amarokapp not trapping sigchild and reaping the zombies?
> 
> Which plugins are your running?

I thought of that after I posted.  I remember not too long ago the
Lyrics plugin crashing.  That may be it.

I'm no Linux IPC expert, but wouldn't a process marked "Z" indicate
that it has sent a SIGCHILD to the parent?


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