sshd with zombie process on FreeBSD 10.0-STABLE

Andrey V. Elsukov bu7cher at yandex.ru
Thu Feb 20 20:53:53 UTC 2014


On 17.02.2014 06:01, Marcelo Gondim wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have noticed zombie processes on the system after a few lost
> connections on ssh.
> 
> # ps afx
> [...]
>  8045  -  Is       0:00.01 sshd: unknown [priv] (sshd)
>  8046  -  Z        0:00.01 <defunct>
>  8054  -  IW       0:00.00 sshd: unknown [pam] (sshd)
> 28146  -  Is       0:00.01 sshd: unknown [priv] (sshd)
> 28147  -  Z        0:00.01 <defunct>
> 28155  -  IW       0:00.00 sshd: unknown [pam] (sshd)
> 43320  -  Is       0:00.01 sshd: unknown [priv] (sshd)
> 43321  -  Z        0:00.01 <defunct>
> 43322  -  IW       0:00.00 sshd: unknown [pam] (sshd)
> 73413  -  Is       0:00.01 sshd: unknown [priv] (sshd)
> 73414  -  Z        0:00.01 <defunct>
> 73430  -  IW       0:00.00 sshd: unknown [pam] (sshd)
> [...]
> 
> Processes do not die with kill-9.
> Anyone else noticed this?

Hi,

I use autossh and usually my system has several tens of sshd's zombies
after few days uptime.

11.0-CURRENT #6 r262183

-- 
WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov


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