Ok, got some more info...
This happens when I make a manual smtp telnet connection and for each new
"mail from:" + "rcpt to:" + "data" sequence it will create a new zombie
process. And when I "quit" from the telnet session all these zombies will
dissapear.
/D.Ryde
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Daniel Ryde wrote:
> When exim is really loaded, it will start to generate _alot_ of zombies.
> It is my secondary mailserver that hits the primary where the inetd has
> been down for a day (I running exim from inetd on these).
> The load average is moderate:
> 11:13am up 7 days, 22:47h, 13 users, load average: 0.09, 0.15, 0.15
>
>
> Here is an process exerpt:
>
> # ps uax|more
> USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT START TIME COMMAND
> mail 24777 0.0 2.5 1292 780 ? S 10:58 0:00 exim -bs
> mail 24779 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:58 0:00 exim <zombie>
> mail 24781 0.0 2.5 1300 784 ? S 10:58 0:00 exim -bs
> mail 24782 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:58 0:00 exim <zombie>
> mail 24784 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:58 0:00 exim <zombie>
> mail 24786 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:58 0:00 exim <zombie>
> mail 24788 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:58 0:00 exim <zombie>
> mail 24789 0.2 2.4 1288 776 ? S 10:58 0:00 exim -bs
> mail 24791 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:58 0:00 exim <zombie>
> mail 24793 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:58 0:00 exim <zombie>
> mail 24796 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:58 0:00 exim <zombie>
> mail 24798 0.0 2.5 1292 780 ? S 10:58 0:00 exim -bs
> mail 24799 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:58 0:00 exim <zombie>
> mail 24800 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:58 0:00 exim <zombie>
> mail 24803 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:58 0:00 exim <zombie>
> mail 24805 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:58 0:00 exim <zombie>
> mail 24807 0.0 2.4 1288 776 ? S 10:59 0:00 exim -bs
> mail 24808 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:59 0:00 exim <zombie>
> mail 24810 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 10:59 0:00 exim <zombie>
>
> ... A total of 230 zombies and 32 real running exim processes.
>
>
> Is this good? I really doubth that.
>
> This is on a Linux GNU/Debian system.
>
>
> Best Regards
>
> Daniel Ryde, System Administrator
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