http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1127000 http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1127000#c2 Bruce Rogers <brogers@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |david.mulder@suse.com --- Comment #2 from Bruce Rogers <brogers@suse.com> --- What I am seeing is that the parent of the zombied smbd processes is smbd. As I understand it, the parent is the at fault when a child gets left in a zombie state. I'm adding David Mulder, samba engineer, to see what perspective he might have on this. I'll continue to try to do more investigations. Since I assumed that non-root usage of smbd is quite a bit less common, I guessed that I might not see this issue if I did the test as root, but I still see these defunct processes when running qemu (and subsequently the spawned smbd process) as root, so I'm dropping that line of investigation. I was watching on pstree to see what was happening and here's what I've seen: ... ... ├─qemu-system-x86(18633)─┬─smbd(19726)─┬─cleanupd(19729) ... │ │ ├─smbd(19931) ... │ │ └─smbd-notifyd(19728) The 19931 process then, after some time becomes zombied. I've not investigated this much further but it seems that normally there isn't a smbd child of smbd parent, So this may indicate something has gone wrong within smbd in our case. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.