On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Max Caines wrote:
> I've just started running Exim 1.58 on a Sun Ultra 1 (Solaris 2.5.1), and I
> seem to have a fairly constant low level of defunct processes on the system,
> all of them running as 'exim'. As time goes on some go away and others
> appear, so I always seem to have 8-12 around. Is this normal, or should I be
> trying to find a reason?
There were some problems with defunct processes, but on Linux, not
Solaris. We are still on 2.4 here (but going 2.5 soon) and I've just
looked on our busiest system. I found one such process, but it went away
immediately after.
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