Zombies Have Taken Over...

Pete Harlan (harlan@mymenus.com)
Mon, 24 Mar 1997 11:59:07 -0600 (CST)

I've got 79 sendmail zombies in my process table this morning. I
can't kill them (that's probably redundant), and I don't know what
caused them.

Kernel pre-2.0.30, fresh Debian 1.2 "stable" setup, full-time ppp
connection to the Internet, which appears to be working fine. Mail
goes in and out.

What can I try? Why are they there?

Thanks in advance,

--
Pete Harlan
pete@mymenus.com
ObSilliness: Maybe they crawled out of Quake


Perhaps related: We don't recieve email properly from a site that's
running Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version
4.0.994.63.  The connection hangs halfway through.  There are too many
zombies for our traffic from that site to account for them, and email
from them doesn't create zombies anyway, but there's possibly
something awry with our networking.  We had no problems a week ago
when I was running a stale Slackware 3.0 setup.