Re: Defunct processes

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Author: John Henders
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: Defunct processes
On Dec 18, ph10@??? (Philip Hazel) wrote:
>
> 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.


I've seen a lot of zombies on the iSTAR server we put exim on, which is
a Solaris 2.4 machine, when it's fairly busy. Like you, however, I
noticed they go away fairly quickly.



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