kalin mintchev wrote: > hi all... > > suddenly from about a month ago every day at any given time i get a lot > of zombies. the machine gets down to a crowl and i have to restart the > httpd. this last time i saw about 120 zombies. according to ps they are > not using any resources. aren;t zombies supposed to be discarded? lack of > memory? They aren't being harvested by the parent process - if they were httpd or log pipe processes. If they were cgi processes the problem is elsewhere. But since you don't mention a version, an os or processor, we'll just guess you didn't seriously expect help to figure this out ;-) --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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