Hi people,
Since i starting to testing 2.6 and recently mm and -ck, i see that Mozilla/Mozilla Firebird
(diferent versions) launch a netstat child that when finalize, it remain zombie. It only happens
when preemptible option is enabled.
The kernel version has tested is:
2.6.0-test[12345]
2.6.0-test5-mm4
2.4.22-ck2.
For example:
456 ? S 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/local/lib/mozilla-1.5a/run-mozilla.sh /u
463 ? S 0:48 \_ /usr/local/lib/mozilla-1.5a/MozillaFirebird-bin
490 ? Z 0:00 \_ [netstat <defunct>]
The file /proc/490/wchan shows do_exit.
Closing Mozilla kill the zombie.
more info need?
http://www.vmlinuz.com.ar/slackware/kernel.config.djgera/config-2.4.22-ck2
http://www.vmlinuz.com.ar/slackware/kernel.config.djgera/config-2.6.0-test5
http://www.vmlinuz.com.ar/slackware/kernel.config.djgera/config-2.6.0-test5-mm4
Disabling preemptible solves the problem in all cases.
chau,
djgera
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