Perl problem

[Rick Stevens]

Bas Bosman wrote:
> Hello I have a really strange problem which I can’t trace.
> 
> After my fedora core 2 server has been running for a while the load goes 
> up above 1.XX without a clear reason.
> 
> When I run the TOP command I get this:
> 
>  
> 
> Tasks: 179 total,   3 running, 144 sleeping,   0 stopped,  32 zombie
> 
> Cpu(s): 83.6% us, 15.8% sy,  0.0% ni,  0.0% id,  0.0% wa,  0.7% hi,  0.0% si
> 
> Mem:    256024k total,   252912k used,     3112k free,    43184k buffers
> 
> Swap:  1044216k total,   286548k used,   757668k free,    14916k cached
> 
>  
> 
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> 
>  1574 apache    25   0  8588 3360 1880 R 88.5  1.3 903:27.45 perl
> 
>  
> 
> So I guess 32 zombies is a bit much;)
> 
>  
> 
> Anyone has any idea how I can trace this problem?

Do an lsof or gdb on the zombies and see what parent they were spawned
off of.
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