Thanks.

Paul de Weerd wrote:
...
> Zombies are part of unix, you *need* them in cases. Leaving them
> dangling (for too long) is not good of course, clean-up is required. 

That's what's happening.  I see that one work-around would be to have
cron periodically send a kill signal to the parent.  But it pains me to
even mention such a lame and problematic hack.

> ...This
> is the job of the parent process so the 'generic way' to *solve* these
> issues is by fixing the parent process.

Easier said than done given the original state of my concentration /
coding skills and the subsequent deterioration from that state.

> ... You may
> want to investigate alternative options or fix the code if you can...

Where is it that the problem most likely lies?
Apache2, perl or the heinous  'apt-cacher' script called by Apache2?
        /usr/bin/perl /usr/sbin/apt-cacher -d -p /var/run/apt-cacher.pid

Looking ahead, what is the timeline for moving to Apache2?
Or what are the major reasons 4.3 is going to still use 1.3x?

Regards,
-Lars

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