[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?

To add, I have not debugged that many times, simply the app has been run with 
C-r. I have perhaps 1-2 debug runs for my session with 20 zombies.

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