[Queue-developers] queued and defunct processes

[Mike C. <da...@ix...>]

On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 12:04:16AM -0700, Mike Castle wrote:
> I see the following now:
> :/usr/src/queue/queue-development# ps -ef | grep queued
> root      5331     1  0 23:47 ?        00:00:02 queued
> nexus     8604  5331  0 23:53 ?        00:00:00 [queued <defunct>]
> nexus     8607  5331  0 23:53 ?        00:00:00 [queued <defunct>]
> root      8815   753  0 23:53 pts/2    00:00:00 grep queued
> 
> And things hang for about, oh, 120 seconds or so (that number sounds
> familiar  ;-).

I think I may have narrowed it down.

It *appears* that if queued receives a SIGCHLD while inside netfread,
things aren't properly processed.  The fact that a SIGCHLD was received is
either somehow lost, OR things hang out in netfread for a long time.

About to investigate.

Yes, I have nothing better to do on a Saturday night...

mrc
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