There has not (to the best of my knowledge) been any formal response from the maintainers regarding a fix. The initial report in Pidgin's tracker ( https://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/15617) hasn't been touched in a while. The developers seem to be at least semi-present in irc, so that may be an option. I'm unsure as to how strongly the dropped connections are related to the abundance of zombie processes. Hypothetically, zombie processes shouldn't negatively impact stability and only use minimal amounts of memory space. Minimal amounts of memory however may add up significantly with over 1k process descriptors still held in system memory. I might, just because this ticket has been sitting here stagnant for so long, err on the side of caution and report the repeatedly dropped connections as a new bug. It's easier to merge two reports together down the line then it is to separate one issue from another. On Apr 27, 2015 5:55 PM, "StevenD57" <1245...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:
> I am running ubuntu 14.04 and pidgin 2.10.11 and I currently have 1539 > zombie processes from pidgin after an uptime of 72 days. > I am also experiencing pidgin dropping out of my Sipe connection quite > frequently and then having to press the "reconnect" button many times to be > able to rejoin my conversations. > Is there actually any solution to this? I see lots of people reporting the > same problem but I do not see any actual solutions posted or even any > replies from pidgin package maintianers indicating any interest in solving > this problem. > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1245666 > > Title: > Pidgin is creating zombies > > Status in Pidgin: > Unknown > Status in pidgin package in Ubuntu: > Confirmed > Status in pidgin package in Fedora: > Unknown > > Bug description: > After upgrading to Kubuntu 13.10 pidgin is constantly creating new > zombies. > > E.g. after an uptime of roughly 4 hours: > $ ps aux | grep Z > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND > cm 2589 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 17:46 0:00 > [pidgin] <defunct> > cm 3045 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 17:47 0:00 > [pidgin] <defunct> > cm 3106 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 17:48 0:00 > [pidgin] <defunct> > cm 3236 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 17:50 0:00 > [pidgin] <defunct> > cm 5760 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 17:54 0:00 > [pidgin] <defunct> > cm 5788 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 18:02 0:00 > [pidgin] <defunct> > cm 6405 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 18:12 0:00 > [pidgin] <defunct> > cm 6501 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 18:22 0:00 > [pidgin] <defunct> > cm 6519 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 18:32 0:00 > [pidgin] <defunct> > cm 6543 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 18:42 0:00 > [pidgin] <defunct> > cm 6580 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 18:52 0:00 > [pidgin] <defunct> > cm 6619 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 19:02 0:00 > [pidgin] <defunct> > cm 6645 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 19:12 0:00 > [pidgin] <defunct> > cm 6672 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 19:22 0:00 > [pidgin] <defunct> > cm 6691 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 19:32 0:00 > [pidgin] <defunct> > cm 6757 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 19:42 0:00 > [pidgin] <defunct> > cm 6846 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 19:52 0:00 > [pidgin] <defunct> > cm 6869 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 20:01 0:00 > [pidgin] <defunct> > cm 6889 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 20:11 0:00 > [pidgin] <defunct> > cm 6914 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 20:21 0:00 > [pidgin] <defunct> > cm 6931 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 20:31 0:00 > [pidgin] <defunct> > cm 6948 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 20:41 0:00 > [pidgin] <defunct> > cm 6972 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 20:51 0:00 > [pidgin] <defunct> > cm 6992 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 21:01 0:00 > [pidgin] <defunct> > cm 7015 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 21:11 0:00 > [pidgin] <defunct> > cm 7036 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 21:20 0:00 > [pidgin] <defunct> > cm 7121 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 21:30 0:00 > [pidgin] <defunct> > cm 7223 0.0 0.0 10984 940 pts/0 S+ 21:38 0:00 grep > --color=auto Z > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/pidgin/+bug/1245666/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1245666 Title: Pidgin is creating zombies To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/pidgin/+bug/1245666/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
