Bug 208345 – Hundreds of zombies on my system

Bug 208345 - Hundreds of zombies on my system

Summary:	Hundreds of zombies on my system

Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME

Aliases:	None

Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	glibc (Show other bugs)
Sub Component:
Version:	5
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Jakub Jelinek
QA Contact:	Brian Brock
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URL:	http://xcski.com/munin/xcski.com/allh...
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Reported:	2006-09-27 18:22 EDT by ptomblin
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:11 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2006-09-30 03:23:48 EDT
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ps auwwfx (66.95 KB, text/plain) 2006-09-27 18:22 EDT, ptomblin	no flags	Details
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Description ptomblin 2006-09-27 18:22:21 EDT

Description of problem:
Since yum installed glibc 2.4-11 on the 16th of this month, my system has been
accumulating zombies at a horrific rate.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
glibc-2.4-11

How reproducible:
Very

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use the system
2. Note the number of processes creeping up at a fairly fast clip.
3.
  
Actual results:
Over 700 processes on my system, and increasing at a constant rate.

Expected results:
Approximately 200-250 processes on my system at any given time.

Additional info:
See the above munin graph showing the number of processes increasing.

I'm attaching the results of a "ps auwwfx".

Comment 1 ptomblin 2006-09-27 18:22:21 EDT

Created attachment 137260 [details]
ps auwwfx

Comment 2 ptomblin 2006-09-27 20:33:36 EDT

An additional symptom: when I try to shutdown, I get the following:

shutdown: timeout opening/writing control channel /dev/initctl

init: timeout opening/writing control channel /dev/initctl

I had to hit the reset button to reboot.

Comment 3 ptomblin 2006-09-28 07:00:40 EDT

Rebooting appears to have fixed the problem.  It appears that upgrading
something, probably glibc, without rebooting was the cause.

Comment 4 Jakub Jelinek 2006-09-30 03:23:48 EDT

Couldn't reproduce this on any of the 6 boxes I have upgraded FC5 glibc to.
If anything, it would be a kernel issue.

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