Script menu makes perl zombies?

2006-09-08 Thread Ken Williams 

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  0.00  0  ??  Z31Dec69   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

Re: Script menu makes perl zombies?

2006-09-08 Thread 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
  
  
  


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Re: Script menu makes perl zombies?

2006-09-08 Thread Ken Williams 

I'm talking about the script menu:

   http://www.apple.com/applescript/scriptmenu/

Did you run your script from the script menu?

 -Ken


On Sep 8, 2006, at 11:16 AM, Michael Barto wrote:


I am not quite sure how you mean to verify this.