Re: [Nfsen-discuss] Perl zombies with nfsen-snapshot-20060728

[Wim B. <Wim...@su...>]

Stephan Eisvogel wrote:

> I  was playing with nfsen-snapshot-20060728 and nfdump-snapshot-20060704 for
> that  matter  the  other  day  on  OpenBSD-current. I'm using httpd with the
> latest php4-core-4.4.1p1 from ports, perl is 5.8.8. Data collector is latest
> pfflowd, dumping into nfcapd via lo0.
> 
> I  noticed  after  some  clicking in nfsen that perl zombie processes remain
> which  don't  get killed. The more I click, the more zombies appear, roughly
> one per new page viewed in web browser.
> 
> Should  I  try  a  stable version? Any settings to adjust? Maybe turn on php
> debugging  to  track down the missing wait()? Any hints, debug code snippets
> etc. greatly appreciated.

Me too ;-)

Tasks: 1002 total,   1 running,  91 sleeping,   0 stopped, 910 zombie

I had the impression this was because I'm using PortTracker. A reload
of both processes reduce the number of zombies considerably ...

# /data/nfsen_v5/bin/nfsen reload
Restart nfsend:[31660]
# /data/nfsen_v9/bin/nfsen reload
Restart nfsend:[31666]

Tasks: 240 total,   1 running,  93 sleeping,   0 stopped, 146 zombie

But still quite a lot. They even appear without clicking.

Cheers,

-Wim -/- SURFnet