On Wed, May 28, 2025 at 09:47:15AM -0500, joshua stein wrote: > Anyone else seeing this on -current amd64 with firefox-138.0.4? The > zombies keep piling up until I run out of processes. It doesn't > seem to be every new tab opened and closed, just some of them but I > can't figure out what's common about them. >
They probably all have a common parent that does no wait(4) handling or setting SA_NOCLDWAIT in sigaction(2). ps alx should show the PPID. > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND > jcs 97908 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? Zp - 0:00.00 (firefox) > jcs 30698 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? Z - 0:00.00 (firefox) > jcs 43767 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? Zp - 0:00.00 (firefox) > jcs 29661 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? Zp - 0:00.00 (firefox) > jcs 73054 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? Zp - 0:00.00 (firefox) > jcs 60005 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? Zp - 0:00.00 (firefox) > jcs 72442 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? Zp - 0:00.00 (firefox) > jcs 98519 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? Zp - 0:00.00 (firefox) > jcs 8821 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? Zp - 0:00.00 (firefox) > jcs 50309 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? Zp - 0:00.00 (firefox) > jcs 28651 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? Zp - 0:00.00 (firefox) > jcs 95233 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? Zp - 0:00.00 (firefox) > jcs 35843 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? Zp - 0:00.00 (firefox) > jcs 34294 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? Zp - 0:00.00 (firefox) > jcs 34594 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? Zp - 0:00.00 (firefox) > jcs 33484 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? Zp - 0:00.00 (firefox) > jcs 94882 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? Zp - 0:00.00 (firefox) > jcs 31799 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? Zp - 0:00.00 (firefox) > jcs 1474 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? Zp - 0:00.00 (firefox) > jcs 3915 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? Zp - 0:00.00 (firefox) > jcs 26733 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? Zp - 0:00.00 (firefox) > jcs 92376 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? Zp - 0:00.00 (firefox) > jcs 61571 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? Zp - 0:00.00 (firefox) > jcs 83556 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? Zp - 0:00.00 (firefox) > jcs 96015 0.0 0.0 1240 804 ?? Ip 8:59AM 0:00.00 sh -c > firefox > jcs 66907 0.0 0.0 626416 984156 ?? IpU 8:59AM 7:53.01 firefox > jcs 38851 0.0 0.0 42600 106364 ?? IpU 8:59AM 0:01.16 > /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc 2 tab > jcs 81163 0.0 0.0 147860 163152 ?? IpU 8:59AM 0:20.96 > /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -appDir > /usr/local/lib/firefox/browser 3 rdd > jcs 11866 0.0 0.0 184644 229520 ?? IpU 8:59AM 0:26.08 > /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc 4 tab > jcs 16454 0.0 0.0 100468 170300 ?? IpU 8:59AM 0:03.38 > /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc 5 tab > jcs 2014 0.0 0.0 434236 465520 ?? IpU 8:59AM 0:32.60 > /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc 6 tab > jcs 61648 0.0 0.0 466752 496692 ?? IpU 8:59AM 1:35.46 > /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc 7 tab > jcs 86500 0.0 0.0 54020 54000 ?? IpU 8:59AM 0:03.42 > /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -appDir > /usr/local/lib/firefox/browser 8 utility > jcs 77380 0.0 0.0 165772 211656 ?? IpU 8:59AM 0:08.70 > /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc 11 tab > jcs 28211 0.0 0.0 95612 151720 ?? IpU 8:59AM 0:01.43 > /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc 15 tab > jcs 77946 0.0 0.0 532308 567392 ?? IpU 9:15AM 0:34.32 > /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc 73 tab > jcs 47390 0.0 0.0 394280 400200 ?? IpU 9:15AM 0:43.38 > /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc 77 tab > jcs 72770 0.0 0.0 6420 45716 ?? Ip 9:29AM 0:00.08 > /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -appDir > /usr/local/lib/firefox/browser 95 socket > jcs 42481 0.0 0.0 685932 627812 ?? IpU 9:29AM 0:08.68 > /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc 98 tab > jcs 27611 0.0 0.0 26880 76628 ?? IpU 9:34AM 0:00.13 > /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc 103 tab > jcs 58737 0.0 0.0 27156 76352 ?? IpU 9:39AM 0:00.12 > /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc 104 tab > jcs 91489 0.0 0.0 26808 76136 ?? IpU 9:39AM 0:00.12 > /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc 105 tab > -- :wq Claudio
