Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265697AbUJNPM4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Oct 2004 11:12:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266181AbUJNPMz (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Oct 2004 11:12:55 -0400 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.203]:47135 "EHLO mproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265697AbUJNPMy (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Oct 2004 11:12:54 -0400 Message-ID: <81b0412b0410140812251110bb@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 17:12:54 +0200 From: Alex Riesen Reply-To: Alex Riesen To: Johan Kullstam Subject: Re: unkillable process Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <87r7o1h4f3.fsf@sophia.axel.nom> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <1097731227.2666.11264.camel@cube> <87r7o1h4f3.fsf@sophia.axel.nom> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 865 Lines: 19 On 14 Oct 2004 08:26:08 -0400, Johan Kullstam wrote: > Albert Cahalan writes: > > > It's really bad when a task group leader exits. > > The process becomes unkillable. > > I have been having zombie problems since 2.6.9-rc1. I run a boinc > climateprediction program (related to seti@home) which leaves defunct > "cp" processes about. Killing the climatepredictor (called > hadsm3um_4.03_i686-pc-linux-gnu) which spawns them causes these zombie > cp things to get reaped. I believe this is not related. Just a bug in the program missing SIGCHLD and not calling waitpid. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/