We are using a python process to manage long running python subprocesses. Subprocesses occasionally need to be killed. The kill command does not completely kill the process, only makes it defunct. ...

I have a legacy stylesheet that is now full of unused styles. The problem is identifying the necessary from the unnecessary. Are there any tools to help with this?

I have some processes showing up as <defunct> in top (and ps). I've boiled things down from the real scripts and programs. In my crontab: * * * * * /tmp/launcher.sh /tmp/tester.sh The con...

I'm implementing a producer-consumer pattern in python using multiprocessing.Pool and multiprocessing.Queue. Consumers are pre-forked processes that uses gevent to spawn multiple tasks. Here is a ...

So, I have this PHP daemon worker that listens to IPC messages. Weird thing is that the parent process (result from pcntl_fork) leaves a [php] < defunct> process untill the child process is done...

On my Fedora Core 9 webserver with kernel 2.6.18, init isn't reaping zombie processes. This would be bearable if it wasn't for the process table eventually reaching an upper limit where no new proc...

I'm want to create a lot of child processes using the fork > exec procedure. Many processes are ending very fast (in less than two minutes, some even earlier). My first problem is, I put the spawn...