[suPHP] suPHP Zombies

[Max Korzhanoff]

Hello,

    Since our first installation of suPHP 0.6.2 on Apache 2 and PHP4 we 
found that from time to time php processes show themselves as defunct 
(zombie), but almost every time they are successfully finished later. 
After a long period of high workload there was a few hanging php defunct 
processes that can be successfully killed. Now we almost completely 
moved to PHP5 (it's 5.2.6 now), but "problem" still appears.

[root at web1 ~]# ps axwww | grep -i php-cgi
25784 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/php5/bin/php-cgi
28362 ?        Z      0:00 [php-cgi] <defunct>
28367 ?        Z      0:00 [php-cgi] <defunct>
28368 ?        Z      0:00 [php-cgi] <defunct>
28379 ?        R      0:00 /usr/local/php5/bin/php-cgi
28382 pts/1    S+     0:00 grep -i php-cgi
[root at web1 ~]# ps axwww | grep -i php-cgi
25784 ?        S      0:00 /usr/local/php5/bin/php-cgi
28480 ?        R      0:00 /usr/local/php5/bin/php-cgi
28489 ?        Z      0:00 [php-cgi] <defunct>
28490 ?        R      0:00 /usr/local/php5/bin/php-cgi
28492 pts/1    S+     0:00 grep -i php-cgi

    It's not a problem in fact, but it will be good to run suphp smooth 
without zombies.
    We're running Apache 2.0.61 with suPHP 0.6.3 on CentOS 4.6 Virtuozzo 
VPS.

-- 
Kind regards,
Max Korzhanoff
GARM Technologies
Riga, Latvi

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