Zombie accounting processes

[George-Cristian Bîrzan]

On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 13:57 +0200, George-Cristian Bîrzan wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I've been having a rather annoying problem with FreeRADIUS, including
> version 1.1.0.
> 
> I've set up authentication and accounting via a Perl script.

Er. Ewps. Let's try again. :-)

In users:

DEFAULT Auth-Type = Accept
        Exec-Program-Wait = "/usr/local/etc/raddb/auth-ng.pl %u %{request:User-Password} %n %i", 
        Fall-Through = 0

In acct_users:

DEFAULT Acct-Status-Type = Stop
        Exec-Program = "/usr/local/etc/raddb/acct-ng.pl STOP %u %{Acct-Input-Octets} %{Acct-Output-Octets} %{Acct-Input-Packets} %{Acct-Output-Packets}"

DEFAULT Acct-Status-Type = Start
        Exec-Program = "/usr/local/etc/raddb/acct-ng.pl START %u %i %{Framed-IP-Address} %n"

If I don't compile FreeRADIUS with --with-threads, it all works fine,
but it only will authenticate one user at a time.

If I use threads, accounting stop processes remain as zombie processes.
After a day or so, the server would die, not being able to create more
processes. So, I've started restarting the RADIUS server hourly, but
that's quite an ugly hack.

>From a strace of a process that remains hung:

[pid 22052] exit_group(0)               = ?
Process 22052 detached
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
--- SIGRTMIN (Unknown signal 32) @ 0 (0) ---
<... rt_sigsuspend resumed> )           = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call)
sigreturn()                             = ? (mask now [HUP INT QUIT TERM RTMIN])
waitpid(22058, NULL, WNOHANG)           = -1 ECHILD (No child processes)

22058 exists, and is another process that hung.

$ ps u 22058 22052
USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root     22052  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 [acct-ng.pl] <defunct>
root     22058  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    14:08   0:00 [acct-ng.pl] <defunct>

I'm trying to look at the source for hints, but I figured I should try
asking... if anyone has any ideas, I'd greatly appreciate it.

-- 
George-Cristian Bîrzan
Network Engineer
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