Re: ZMailer scheduler <zombie>'s appear in Linux 1.2.13

[Jerzy Sobczyk <J.Sobczyk@ia.pw.edu.pl>]

> Hello,
> 
> I did a compile of our in-use production ZMailer (works great on Ultrix
> and NeXT) to Linux 1.2.13 tonight, and discovered that the scheduler
> spawned subprocesses go <zombie> on me. Log file is uninformative.
> 
.........8<................[stuff deleted].........8<.........
> 
> Otherwise everything works just tickity-boo (router, delivery, mailboxes
> etc).
> 
> During the compile I had minor complaints about libmalloc duplicates,
> and other small trivia, but nothing out of the ordinary platform
> glitches one runs into. Full compile after fixes took only 18 min.
> 
> Anyone else run into <zombie>'s ? They just won't go away, and if traffic
> increases, I'll see my stack get swallowed up :-( Anyone offer any ideas
> as to why, and how to get a fix?
 
I have got simmilar problem under Solaris 2.3 and 2.4 with 2.99.15,
but in my case it is not scheduler, but router who leaves a lot of zombies. 
It is probably caused by running multiple routers, but having troubles
with some DNS destinations I need more than one router to have reasonable turnaround.
	Jerzy
PS.
If somebody can help with this I can serve with any logs needed.
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