INN 2.4.1 produces many defunct processes

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Mon Jan 26 16:45:33 UTC 2004


M F Z Abdel-Messeh <M.F.Z.Abdel-Messeh at open.ac.uk> writes:

> I have recently installed inn 2.4.1 it seems to work fine apart from the
> fact that it produces many defunct (zombie) processes.  The first one
> starts as soon as innd starts, then you get a new one every about 1/2
> hour.  Some times they cause the innd server to load and consume large
> amount of the memory and it then needs to be restarted.

What process is it that shows up as defunct?  Or can you not tell?

I've never heard of this problem before.

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