From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: Johan Kullstam <kullstj-ml@comcast.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: unkillable process
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 17:12:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <81b0412b0410140812251110bb@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r7o1h4f3.fsf@sophia.axel.nom>
On 14 Oct 2004 08:26:08 -0400, Johan Kullstam <kullstj-ml@comcast.net> wrote:
> Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net> 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.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-14 15:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-14 5:20 unkillable process Albert Cahalan
2004-10-14 7:40 ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-14 12:26 ` Johan Kullstam
2004-10-14 15:12 ` Alex Riesen [this message]
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