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 "<defunct>" processes as well. There is a pthread-bug for the Alpha libc (#197988) but that should be fixed in 2.3.5-4 running on my box. Do any of you experience the same problem? I've written a minimal Python-script starting some threads (attached). If I have a look at "ps fax" after a while I get: 5499 pts/0 S+ 0:00 | \_ python threadtest.py 5500 pts/0 S+ 0:00 | \_ python threadtest.py 5501 pts/0 Z+ 0:00 | \_ [python] <defunct> 5502 pts/0 Z+ 0:00 | \_ [python] <defunct> 5503 pts/0 Z+ 0:00 | \_ [python] <defunct> 5504 pts/0 Z+ 0:00 | \_ [python] <defunct> 5505 pts/0 Z+ 0:00 | \_ [python] <defunct> 5506 pts/0 S+ 0:00 | \_ python threadtest.py 5507 pts/0 S+ 0:00 | \_ python threadtest.py 5508 pts/0 S+ 0:00 | \_ python threadtest.py 5509 pts/0 S+ 0:00 | \_ python threadtest.py 5510 pts/0 S+ 0:00 | \_ python threadtest.py Could someone run the script on another Alpha with kernel 2.6? On escher (which uses 2.4) there are no processes left behind. I want to know if I'm chasing ghosts or not... Cheers Thimo
#!/usr/bin/python
from threading import *
from time import sleep
class Work(Thread):
def __init__(self, num):
Thread.__init__(self)
self.num = num
def run(self):
print "Running %d ..." % self.num
sleep(self.num)
print "End %d" % self.num
for i in range(10):
w = Work(i)
w.start()
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