Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 11:19:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 11:19:24 -0500 Received: from agnus.shiny.it ([194.20.232.6]:63498 "EHLO agnus.shiny.it") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 11:19:14 -0500 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on Linux X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 17:19:14 +0100 (CET) From: Giuliano Pochini To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: 2.4.1 & zombies Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Last week we put 2.4.1 in our web server. (2.2 really couldn't do the job - continue stalls, load average up to 800, etc.). 2.4 performs really nicely. Now the load avg rarely goes over 4 and the machine is always responsive. I noticed that zombies tend to exist for much more time than with 2.2.x. e.g. in this moment, with medium load (700 httpd's), there are around 70 zombie cgi's. There aren't processes stuck in Z, they simply take more time to die. Strange. Bye. Giuliano Pochini ->)|(<- Shiny Corporation {AS6665} ->)|(<- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/