[Qt-creator] Zombie processes

[Jan Ekholm]

On Friday 20 February 2009 16:03:39 Andre Poenitz wrote:
> ext Jan Ekholm wrote:
> > On Friday 20 February 2009, Andre Poenitz wrote:
> >> ext Winfried wrote:
> >>> Today one of our developers had a QtCreator with 264 defunct
> >>> processes. That creator had been running for at least several days.
> >>> When we closed QtCreator, fortunately all the zombies disappeared.
> >>
> >> Do you have some more information on these processes so that
> >> we might try to figure out what's going on? (names, parent-child
> >> relationship, perhaps size etc?)
> >
> > I had the same with an older version of Creator (from last year, I
> > think). It left one zombie for each time I had executed my application
> > from within Creator.
>
> So the processes in question were your own application and
> Creator failed to kill them properly?

No, they were Creator processes. But there was (as far as I remember) about as 
many of them as I had run my own app. So it seems as each run left one Creator 
process. Actually, it still happens with a snapshot from yesterday:

chakie   24355  0.1  3.6 549260 148780 ?       Sl   Feb19   2:19 
/home/chakie/qtcreator-0.9.2-20090219/bin/qtcreator
chakie   24376  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    Feb19   0:00 [qtcreator] 
<defunct>
chakie   24780  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    Feb19   0:00 [qtcreator] 
<defunct>
chakie   24832  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    Feb19   0:00 [qtcreator] 
<defunct>
chakie   24917  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    Feb19   0:00 [qtcreator] 
<defunct>
chakie   24918  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    Feb19   0:00 [qtcreator] 
<defunct>
chakie   24938  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    Feb19   0:00 [qtcreator] 
<defunct>
chakie   25127  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    Feb19   0:00 [qtcreator] 
<defunct>
chakie   25128  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    Feb19   0:00 [qtcreator] 
<defunct>
chakie   25163  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    Feb19   0:00 [qtcreator] 
<defunct>
chakie   25164  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    Feb19   0:00 [qtcreator] 
<defunct>
chakie   25471  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    Feb19   0:00 [qtcreator] 
<defunct>
chakie   25491  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    Feb19   0:00 [qtcreator] 
<defunct>
chakie   25514  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    Feb19   0:00 [qtcreator] 
<defunct>
chakie   25579  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    Feb19   0:00 [qtcreator] 
<defunct>
chakie   25607  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    Feb19   0:00 [qtcreator] 
<defunct>
chakie   25634  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    Feb19   0:00 [qtcreator] 
<defunct>
chakie   32297  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    18:13   0:00 [qtcreator] 
<defunct>

Hm, I see now that I installed it into $HOME, that was not my intention...

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