Zombie Jails - why don't they disappear?

LI Xin delphij at delphij.net
Wed Feb 21 17:53:30 UTC 2007


Josef Karthauser wrote:
> I've got zombie jails on a freebsd 6.x box (currently 6.2).
> There are no processes running under any of them, but they still appear
> on the jail list:
> 
> server# jls
>    JID  IP Address      Hostname                      Path
>      2  xxx.xxx.1.234    host1.domain		/data/jails/host1
>      1  xxx.xxx.1.235    host2.domain		/data/jails/host2
> 
> I'm flumoxed as to why they're still there.  There aren't any processes
> running in them:
> 
> server# ps -auxww | grep J
> 
> Any ideas why they are still hanging around in the jail list?

Sockets (stuck in a state which can not be released immediately?) or
other resources?  I really think that this is a bug, though.

Cheers,
-- 
Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
FreeBSD - The Power to Serve!

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