From: gopher-project-bounces+rachael=telefisk.org@lists.alioth.debian.org Date: Mon Mar 26 05:56:22 2012 Subject: Re: [gopher] pygopherd and zombies What I said was that it's always left 1 or 2 zombies. I can't really remember the reason now, but I believe it was in the guts of some Python module. They always did get wait()ed upon, just after the next connection, I believe. As a practical matter, that behavior doesn't cause any issues unless you're running on a system with 10K RAM... John On 03/25/2012 10:53 PM, David Griffith wrote: > On Sun, 25 Mar 2012, Cameron Kaiser wrote: > >>> Does anyone here know why pygopherd constantly creates zombies? Does >>> anyone know how to fix it? >> >> What OS? Sounds like it's not wait()ing on its children. Maybe try >> running it from (x)inetd? > > I'm running it on x86 and amd64. I just got a reply from John Goerzen > who said that it has always done that. It just strikes me as > something that really should be fixed instead of tolerating it. > _______________________________________________ Gopher-Project mailing list Gopher-Project@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gopher-project Thread start (DIR) [gopher] pygopherd and zombies (DIR) Followup: Re: [gopher] pygopherd and zombies