[Qt-creator] Zombie processes

[Kris Wong]

> > 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 now recall the issue with QProcess. This occurs when a child process
started by QProcess then starts its own child process. For me this happens
when I build. Creator starts make, which in turn starts g++. The 2nd
level processes all become defunct.

Kris Wong