Too Many Processes open / What do to?

[Peter Barker]

On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:

> > Has anyone experienced when processes don't die and eventually causes
> > process count to fill up to an extent where the whole system stops
> > working?

> Are the processes in D state? IOW, can you kill them? qpopper has been known

It is also possible that init is, for some reason, not reaping its
children.

Does a "ps -wauxf" show the tasks as children of what _should_ be their
parent (e.g. if qpopper forks per connection, there should be a
parent/child pair), or as children of the "init" task?

Of course, you can't strace the init process to find out what it's doing
:)

Yours,
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