On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 16:42:32 +0200, Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi> wrote:
Oh, I somehow missed the meaning of zombie word when answering :) Right, it shouldn't leave them. But I also don't see how it would.. It should get rid of them once every second. Unless the dovecot-auth process itself is stuck on something.
If you strace the dovecot-auth process, does it show calling waitpid() every second?
Yes, it does. Infact, dovecot-auth seems to be working well enough, deleting zombie processes every second, unless the ldap server remains stuck... I have traced the problem and it seems to be lying around openldap, pam_ldap and nss_ldap. Infact restarting slapd makes dovecot-auth work again, without touching dovecot processes.
Thanks for your help. stef