Re: Script menu makes perl zombies?

[Michael Barto]

I am not quite sure how you mean to verify this. I ran a complex Perl program that take over 20 seconds and perform you script every 5 seconds. ---------------------------- pwbk2003:~ root# ps auxww|grep '[p]erl' pwbk2003:~ root# ps auxww|grep '[p]erl' qstatus    329  78.4  3.0    56560  31660  ??  R     9:12AM   0:01.17 /usr/bin/perl -w /Logiqwest/ApacheWeb/q-statusSolaris/q-statusSolaris/CGI/selectPatchdiag.cgi pwbk2003:~ root# ps auxww|grep '[p]erl' qstatus    329  86.7  3.4    59848  35196  ??  R     9:12AM   0:07.01 /usr/bin/perl -w /Logiqwest/ApacheWeb/q-statusSolaris/q-statusSolaris/CGI/selectPatchdiag.cgi pwbk2003:~ root# ps auxww|grep '[p]erl' qstatus    329  82.9  3.4    59848  35196  ??  R     9:12AM   0:12.70 /usr/bin/perl -w /Logiqwest/ApacheWeb/q-statusSolaris/q-statusSolaris/CGI/selectPatchdiag.cgi pwbk2003:~ root# ps auxww|grep '[p]erl' qstatus    329  91.3  3.4    59848  35196  ??  R     9:12AM   0:18.64 /usr/bin/perl -w /Logiqwest/ApacheWeb/q-statusSolaris/q-statusSolaris/CGI/selectPatchdiag.cgi pwbk2003:~ root# ps auxww|grep '[p]erl' qstatus    329  86.0  3.4    59848  35196  ??  R     9:12AM   0:22.38 /usr/bin/perl -w /Logiqwest/ApacheWeb/q-statusSolaris/q-statusSolaris/CGI/selectPatchdiag.cgi pwbk2003:~ root# ps auxww|grep '[p]erl' pwbk2003:~ root# -------------------------- If your script is the problem, I will need the script. Ken Williams wrote: Hi, For months I've been trying to figure out what's causing some perl  zombie processes on my system.  Looks like it might be the script  menu.  I have a script menu item called "tunnels.pl" that establishes  some SSH tunnels, and it works fine.  But after I run it, I see this: % ps auxww|grep '[p]erl' ken      14697   0.0  0.0        0      0  ??  Z    31Dec69   0:00.00  (perl) Its parent process is 1982, which is /System/Library/CoreServices/ SystemUIServer.app/Contents/MacOS/S ystemUIServer -psn_0_786433 . Can other people confirm this?  Any known bug covering this or  something (not sure where to look)?  -Ken -- Michael Barto Software Architect LogiQwest Inc. 16458 Bolsa Chica Street, # 15 Huntington Beach, CA  92649 http://www.logiqwest.com/     [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel:  714 377 3705 Fax: 714 840 3937 Cell: 714 883 1949 'tis a gift to be simple This e-mail may contain LogiQwest proprietary information and should be treated as confidential.