Re: [Slashcode-general] this can't be good ...

[Jamie M. <ja...@mc...>]

yo...@ho... (Micah Yoder) writes:

>   331 ?        Z      0:00 [slashd <defunct>]
>   332 ?        Z      0:00 [slashd <defunct>]
>   343 ?        Z      0:00 [slashd <defunct>]
> 
> ....
> 
> much, much, much snippage of more of the same

Yeah;  it's my bug in slashd, doesn't reap its children properly.

Earlier I told someone this was harmless.  That's only sorta true.
When I got up to 256 zombie children my Red Hat system refused to
fork more and dailyStuff/moderatord stopped running.  So it's
probably a good idea to restart slashd every 25 days or less...

/etc/init.d/slash restart

(or on my Red Hat system)

/etc/rc.d/init.d/slash restart

Putting it in root cron to run twice a month might not be the worst
idea.

This is all totally fixed in fry (slashd has been totally rewritten)
and it's probably not going to be addressed in bender until fry is
released.  My fault.  Sorry.
--
 Jamie McCarthy
 ja...@mc...