Bug 208345 - Hundreds of zombies on my system
Summary: Hundreds of zombies on my system
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: glibc
Version: 5
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jakub Jelinek
QA Contact: Brian Brock
URL: http://xcski.com/munin/xcski.com/allh...
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-09-27 22:22 UTC by ptomblin
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-09-30 07:23:48 UTC
Type: ---
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ps auwwfx (66.95 KB, text/plain)
2006-09-27 22:22 UTC, ptomblin
no flags Details

Description ptomblin 2006-09-27 22:22:21 UTC
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 22:22:21 UTC
Created attachment 137260 [details]
ps auwwfx

Comment 2 ptomblin 2006-09-28 00:33:36 UTC
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 11:00:40 UTC
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 07:23:48 UTC
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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