Zombie Jails - why don't they disappear?

Maxim Konovalov maxim at macomnet.ru
Wed Feb 21 18:17:58 UTC 2007


On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, 01:21+0800, LI Xin wrote:

> 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.

It was discussed millon times already and there is at least one open
PR:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/89528

-- 
Maxim Konovalov


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