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From: Matthew McGehrin <mcgehrin@reverse.net>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Maxproc Limits counts Zombie Processes when specified in login.conf
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>Number:         61308
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       Maxproc Limits counts Zombie Processes when specified in login.conf
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    remko
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jan 13 04:10:10 PST 2004
>Closed-Date:    Tue Sep 12 10:15:15 GMT 2006
>Last-Modified:  Tue Sep 12 10:15:15 GMT 2006
>Originator:     Matthew McGehrin
>Release:        4.9 - Stable
>Organization:
Reverse.Net
>Environment:
FreeBSD c3p0.reverse.net 4.9-STABLE FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #0: Fri Nov 21 23:34:06 EST 2003     root@c3p0.reverse.net:/usr/obj/staff/source/4.9-STABLE/sys/C3P0  i386
     
>Description:
I specified maxproc=32 for a 'shell' box. Zombie processes count towards total and generate the following error:

maxproc limit exceeded by uid 1245, please see tuning(7) and login.conf(5).

After doing a ps-aux, it shows this user has 29 zombies, and 3 actual processes. Total of 32 (MaxProc Value)

fu            31773  0.0  0.0     0    0  p5  Z     6:32AM   0:00.00  (eggdrop)
fu            31795  0.0  0.0     0    0  p5  Z     6:32AM   0:00.00  (eggdrop)
fu            31932  0.0  0.0     0    0  p5  Z     6:34AM   0:00.00  (eggdrop)
fu            32159  0.0  0.0     0    0  p5  Z     6:35AM   0:00.00  (eggdrop)
fu            32189  0.0  0.0     0    0  p5  Z     6:35AM   0:00.00  (eggdrop)
fu            32297  0.0  0.0     0    0  p5  Z     6:37AM   0:00.00  (eggdrop)
fu            32359  0.0  0.0     0    0  p5  Z     6:38AM   0:00.00  (eggdrop)
fu            32370  0.0  0.0     0    0  p5  Z     6:38AM   0:00.00  (eggdrop)
fu            32391  0.0  0.0     0    0  p5  Z     6:38AM   0:00.00  (eggdrop)
fu            32421  0.0  0.0     0    0  p5  Z     6:39AM   0:00.00  (eggdrop)
fu            32432  0.0  0.0     0    0  p5  Z     6:39AM   0:00.00  (eggdrop)
fu            33832  0.0  0.0     0    0  p5  Z     6:41AM   0:00.00  (eggdrop)
fu            33845  0.0  0.0     0    0  p5  Z     6:41AM   0:00.00  (eggdrop)
fu            33903  0.0  0.0     0    0  p5  Z     6:42AM   0:00.00  (eggdrop)
fu            33909  0.0  0.0     0    0  p5  Z     6:42AM   0:00.00  (eggdrop)
fu            33981  0.0  0.0     0    0  p5  Z     6:44AM   0:00.00  (eggdrop)
fu            34003  0.0  0.0     0    0  p5  Z     6:44AM   0:00.00  (eggdrop)
fu            34009  0.0  0.0     0    0  p5  Z     6:44AM   0:00.00  (eggdrop)
fu            34083  0.0  0.0     0    0  p5  Z     6:45AM   0:00.00  (eggdrop)
fu            34204  0.0  0.0     0    0  p5  Z     6:45AM   0:00.00  (eggdrop)
fu            34224  0.0  0.0     0    0  p5  Z     6:46AM   0:00.00  (eggdrop)
fu            34265  0.0  0.0     0    0  p5  Z     6:47AM   0:00.00  (eggdrop)
fu            34286  0.0  0.0     0    0  p5  Z     6:47AM   0:00.00  (eggdrop)
fu            34291  0.0  0.0     0    0  p5  Z     6:47AM   0:00.00  (eggdrop)
fu            34452  0.0  0.0     0    0  p5  Z     6:49AM   0:00.00  (eggdrop)
fu            34461  0.0  0.0     0    0  p5  Z     6:49AM   0:00.00  (eggdrop)
fu            35758  0.0  0.0     0    0  p5  Z     6:50AM   0:00.00  (eggdrop)
fu            35856  0.0  0.0     0    0  p5  Z     6:52AM   0:00.00  (eggdrop)
fu            35940  0.0  0.0     0    0  p5  Z     6:54AM   0:00.00  (eggdrop)
unfuqable     83655  0.0  0.2  3876 3316  p7- S     1Jan04   8:38.69 ./eggdrop
unfuqable     83660  0.0  0.2  3900 3296  p7- S     1Jan04   8:17.08 ./eggdrop
unfuqable     84048  0.0  0.2  3888 3332  p7- S     1Jan04   9:11.79 ./eggdrop
unfuqable     84059  0.0  0.2  3884 3352  p7- S     1Jan04   8:21.38 ./eggdrop
unfuqable     84072  0.0  0.2  3888 3296  p7- S     1Jan04   8:22.50 ./eggdrop
fu            31772  0.0  0.2  3764 3208  p5  S     6:32AM   0:01.84 ./eggdrop
fu            31788  0.0  0.2  3764 3104  p5  S     6:32AM   0:01.76 ./eggdrop
fu            31824  0.0  0.2  3764 3100  p5  S     6:32AM   0:01.56 ./eggdrop


>How-To-Repeat:
Create Zombie Processes that exceed the value of MaxProc in Login.conf


>Fix:
Unknown
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: remko 
State-Changed-When: Mon Sep 11 12:34:05 UTC 2006 
State-Changed-Why:  
Hello, 

Can you tell me whether this problem is still persisting? 
we have changed -a lot- since your report and this might 
be one of those things. 

Thanks 


Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-i386->remko 
Responsible-Changed-By: remko 
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Sep 11 12:34:05 UTC 2006 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
grab the pr 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=61308 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed 
State-Changed-By: remko 
State-Changed-When: Tue Sep 12 10:15:14 UTC 2006 
State-Changed-Why:  
Together with the submitter we determined that this is a feature not a 
bug, closing the PR. thanks for the feedback! 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=61308 
>Unformatted:
