Re: Finished threads remain as zombies on 2.6?

2005-08-28 Thread Tyson Whitehead
Humm. I'm running 2.6.12 and libc 2.3.5-4 as well. You program does the exact same thing (i.e., leaves zombie). I wrote it up a C version to be sure (attached for anyone else wants to check it). The exact samething happens. Even detaching the threads does not help. Both programs work fine o

Re: Finished threads remain as zombies on 2.6?

2005-08-28 Thread Tom Evans
Haven't run the script - but multithreaded programs been leaving zombies all over my machine using the 2.6.12.3 kernel. I am actually in the process of trying to determine what changed - I was using Debian unstable and am downgrading to stable at the moment. When I debug some of the program

Re: Finished threads remain as zombies on 2.6?

2005-08-28 Thread Thomas Evans
I switched back to a previous kernel version that I ran for months. I don't remember seeing zombie threads back then - the zombies still appear now - perhaps this is not a kernel issue, but rather a pthreads issue? I gave up on reverting to stable - too many frightening messages. Has anyone els

Finished threads remain as zombies on 2.6?

2005-08-28 Thread Thimo Neubauer
Hi, some weeks ago I experienced a full process table and found that offlineimap left vast amounts of zomies around. That sounded like #162369 (forwarded to http://python.org/sf/621548 but with no apparent solution) or a Python problem but firefox is collecting "" processes as well. There is a pth

Re: Procedure to boot to 2.6.8

2005-08-28 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Robert, On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 07:09:19PM -0400, Robert A. Oram III wrote: > I run 2.4 on my Lx164 now. I recently installed 2.6.8, but am > unclear on the proper procedure to boot to it. I would like to boot to it > from the SRM console to test it, and once it works satisfactorily, s