Karsten Lehmann wrote on Wed, 11 Aug 2004 13:55:47 +0200:
After stopping the mysql deamon I have reapplied the kernel patch on several affected machines. The zombie problem doesn't exist any longer.
which OS? I tried it on one 9.0 machine and there's no difference. That machine had actually no mysqld running at all (and never before) during the first installation. I started it and it was even worse on that system because it produced a series of defunct processes right at startup, so that the startup takes so long that the init script thinks it failed. I reapplied the kernel while mysqld was shutdown, rebooted and there's unfortunately no difference :-( Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com IE-Center: http://ie5.de & http://msie.winware.org