[Pan-users] Possible bug, lot's of defunct processes ????

[Mark Janssen]

Hi List,

I'm using the debian packaged version of pan 0.11.3, and have been
seeing the following problem (also with older versions)

ninja:/# ps -ef | grep pan | grep -v panel
maniac    1466     1  1 17:30 ?        00:02:12 pan
maniac    1467  1466  0 17:30 ?        00:00:00 pan
maniac    1468  1467  0 17:30 ?        00:00:00 pan
maniac    1901  1467  0 19:11 ?        00:00:03 [pan <defunct>]
maniac    1905  1467  0 19:16 ?        00:00:03 [pan <defunct>]
maniac    1955  1467  0 19:25 ?        00:00:03 [pan <defunct>]
maniac    1956  1467  0 19:28 ?        00:00:03 [pan <defunct>]
maniac    2037  1467  0 19:39 ?        00:00:03 [pan <defunct>]
maniac    2038  1467  0 19:39 ?        00:00:03 [pan <defunct>]
maniac    2039  1467  0 19:46 ?        00:00:00 [pan <defunct>]
maniac    2047  1467  0 19:49 ?        00:00:00 [pan <defunct>]
maniac    2048  1467  0 19:49 ?        00:00:00 [pan <defunct>]
maniac    2049  1467  0 19:49 ?        00:00:03 [pan <defunct>]
maniac    2050  1467  0 19:52 ?        00:00:03 [pan <defunct>]
maniac    2097  1467  0 19:59 ?        00:00:03 [pan <defunct>]
maniac    2113  1467  0 20:03 ?        00:00:03 [pan <defunct>]
maniac    2152  1467  0 20:10 ?        00:00:03 [pan <defunct>]
maniac    2153  1467  0 20:13 ?        00:00:03 [pan <defunct>]
maniac    2154  1467  0 20:15 ?        00:00:00 [pan <defunct>]
maniac    2155  1467  0 20:15 ?        00:00:00 [pan <defunct>]
maniac    2156  1467  0 20:16 ?        00:00:00 [pan <defunct>]
maniac    2157  1467  0 20:16 ?        00:00:00 [pan <defunct>]
maniac    2158  1467  0 20:16 ?        00:00:00 [pan <defunct>]
maniac    2159  1467  0 20:16 ?        00:00:00 [pan <defunct>]
maniac    2160  1467  0 20:17 ?        00:00:00 [pan <defunct>]
maniac    2161  1467  0 20:17 ?        00:00:00 [pan <defunct>]
maniac    2162  1467  0 20:17 ?        00:00:00 [pan <defunct>]
maniac    2163  1467  0 20:18 ?        00:00:00 [pan <defunct>]
maniac    2164  1467  0 20:18 ?        00:00:00 [pan <defunct>]
maniac    2165  1467  0 20:19 ?        00:00:00 [pan <defunct>]
maniac    2166  1467  0 20:19 ?        00:00:00 [pan <defunct>]
maniac    2167  1467  0 20:20 ?        00:00:00 [pan <defunct>]
maniac    2168  1467  0 20:21 ?        00:00:01 [pan <defunct>]
maniac    2169  1467  0 20:21 ?        00:00:02 [pan <defunct>]
maniac    2174  1467  0 20:23 ?        00:00:00 [pan <defunct>]
maniac    2207  1467  0 20:23 ?        00:00:00 [pan <defunct>]
maniac    2208  1467  0 20:23 ?        00:00:00 [pan <defunct>]
maniac    2209  1467  0 20:24 ?        00:00:00 [pan <defunct>]
maniac    2210  1467  0 20:24 ?        00:00:00 [pan <defunct>]
maniac    2211  1467  0 20:24 ?        00:00:05 [pan <defunct>]
maniac    2212  1467  0 20:27 ?        00:00:05 [pan <defunct>]
maniac    2213  1467  0 20:36 ?        00:00:05 [pan <defunct>]
maniac    2254  1467  0 20:42 ?        00:00:04 [pan <defunct>]
maniac    2275  1467  0 20:49 ?        00:00:04 [pan <defunct>]
maniac    2340  1467  0 21:02 ?        00:00:00 pan
maniac    2341  1467  0 21:02 ?        00:00:00 pan

As you can see, there are lot's of defunct processes. AFAIK this means
that there must be some (minor) bug/fault in Pan somewhere, forked off
children should be 'waited' on.

Hope this helps making pan even better... it's not a big issue, but it
should be fixed.

-- 
Mark Janssen -- maniac(at)maniac.nl -- GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178
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