no wait exec scripts end up as defunct zombie process

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Fri Feb 5 08:45:26 CET 2010


Sajeewa Warnakulasuriya wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I know the issue  no wait exec scripts end up as defunct zombie process
> was covered previously and appears to have been resolved after version
> 1.1(?) but the issue still appears to happening in the latest freeradius.
> 
> Has anybody else noticed this?

  Nope.  It does a waitpid() every time it processes a packet.

  The only situation where it takes a bit of time to do a waitpid() is
if ALL of the child threads are blocked for many seconds.

  Alan DeKok.



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