On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, cjackson wrote:
> Every time I start Exim it looks like this.
>
> mail 29023 1 0 17:14 ? 00:00:00 /usr/exim/bin/exim -bd -q15m
> mail 29025 15048 0 17:14 tty1 00:00:00 [exim] <defunct>
>
> It didn't bother me as much because there was always one zombie and went
> away if I stopped Exim. But now a few zombies are starting and they are
> staying after Exim is stopped. This is a server that handles zero mail
> because it is still being built.
Make it handle some mail. The zombies will go away. The Exim daemon
doesn't reap child processes until it wakes up. If there's no mail, it
won't wake up (until it's time to start a queue runner).
BTW, this is FAQ Q0046.
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