Hi all:

For the upcoming 3.2 release is anything being down to reap zombie
processes?

Currently if you have multiple shares being backed up on a single
host, a share is backed up and the child process is just abandoned as
far as I can tell. This leads to a bunch of zombies being generated.

They seem to be finally reaped when the backup for the entire host
exits (and I assume the zombies are inherited by init and then
wait()'ed for by init). I can have 100 or more zombie processes at a
time which makes finding and stopping other processes that are
creating zombies somewhat difficult.

Would it be possible to have the parent wait for each child processes
before spawning a new backup process for the next share on a host in
the 3.2 release?

This would be helpful as it would allow us to not have to treat
backuppc systems differently from the point of view of our normal
system monitoring.
        
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                                -- rouilj

John Rouillard       System Administrator
Renesys Corporation  603-244-9084 (cell)  603-643-9300 x 111

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