It seems to only affect processes which are reaped by wait4, this seems to
include sendmail, ans thus my process table fills up pretty quickly after
a few runs of fetchmail :(
The PPID of the zombies is shown as 0 by ps. The real parent process
behaves normally. The problem does not manifest with a UP kernel (this is
a dual-processor machine, with only one processor).
I have not had any experience diagnosing kernel bugs, so any suggestion on
how to further track this would be appreciated.
Regards,
Damien Miller
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