Zombie processes not clearing (solution)

[Steven Hartland]

The patch does indeed work fine here thanks Don. We have it deployed
across over 50 machines without issue.
The ftp has been busy recently but seems available now. If you have any
more trouble getting on drop me a mail and I'll put it elsewhere.

    Steve
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Lewis"
> On 10 Feb, Steven Hartland wrote:
> > Ok looks like this has been spotted before and its a kernel issue
> > described here:
> > http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=bausg0%2416c5%241%40FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw&rnum=13
> 
> If the kernel patch mentioned above fixes the problem, I'll commit it to
> -CURRENT.  I never got any feedback when I previously posted it.
> 
> > I've made a 5.1 and 5.2 patch available from:
> > ftp://ftp.multiplay.co.uk/pub/games/fps/battlefield1942/patches/FreeBSD/
> 
> I haven't been able to access that FTP server.  It always tells me that
> the maximum number of allowed clients is connected.
> 
> > This affects all linux threaded apps which don't set SIGCHLD or
> > do an explicit wait().


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