* Vasya Pupkin (Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:26:29 +0300) > I have a problem running cygwin sshd. I often end up with a lot of > bash processes running and eating memory while there are no single > active ssh session. It happens when either connection lost or user > closes connection without logging out, sshd process dies but bash > remains in memory forever. Is it possible to prevent this? In all real > unix environments this never happen, bash always dies when parent sshd > exits.
That is (or was) an old problem as far as I remember. Search the mailing list archives to see if it is supposed to be fixed or a workaround is available. Maybe someone else here remembers more than me... Thorsten -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple