[Mailman-Developers] More on the zombie brigade:

[Chuq Von Rospach]

Here's what I'm seeing. After qrunner is running for a while, I see:

 mailman  7303  7269  0                   0:00 <defunct>
 mailman  7672  7269  0                   0:00 <defunct>
 mailman  8008  7269  0                   0:00 <defunct>
 mailman  8285  7269  0                   0:00 <defunct>
 mailman  8412  7269  0                   0:00 <defunct>
 mailman  8746  7269  0                   0:00 <defunct>
 mailman  8833  7269  0                   0:00 <defunct>
 mailman  8992  7269  0                   0:00 <defunct>
 mailman  9139  7269  0                   0:00 <defunct>
 mailman  9223  7269  0                   0:00 <defunct>
 mailman  9361  7269  0                   0:00 <defunct>

 mailman  7269  7268  3 11:08:00 ?        1:22 /usr/local/bin/python -S
/export/home/mailman/cron/qrunner


So these are dead, unreaped children owned by qrunner, barry. I'm wondering
if it is the mail -> news stuff. I think I see one per message posted to a
list, and pretty much all of my lists are gatewayed on that machine. But
some sub-process is exiting and not being reaped.



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