t...@uncon.org wrote: > Quoting "Eric Shubert" <e...@shubes.net>: > > >> >> On a high volume server, defunct processes are much more frequent. They >> all appear to be sessions with a spamdyke:TIMEOUT message, although >> there are also many TIMEOUTs which do not result in defunct processes. >> The defunct sessions vary as to the type of rejection, some rDNS, some >> RBLs, but they all eventually get a TIMEOUT message, but no subsequent >> tcpserver:end message. > > I'm not sure you understand what a defunct process is. You should > read-up on it. When a process is defunct, it has exited successfully, > and is waiting for its parent process to collect its return code. > > If 'ps' is listing the processes as defunct, you need to look into why > their parent process isn't reaping them. > > -trog
I think I understand defunct processes well enough, but perhaps I wasn't very clear in my description. The qmail-spamd process is defunct, and the parent spamdyke process is hung. Spamdyke is apparently waiting for i/o from openssl, but that's somewhat of a guess. In my description I was lumping the two processes together, as a logical unit of work, which was perhaps erroneous. Thanks for clearing this up. -- -Eric 'shubes' _______________________________________________ spamdyke-users mailing list spamdyke-users@spamdyke.org http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users
