[mew-int 2350] Re: Zombie stunnel processes

[Kazu Yamamoto ( 山本和彦 )]

Hello,

> On my Mac laptop, the stunnel processes started by mew sometimes fail
> to wait for their children, leaving a large number (30 or more) zombie
> processes behind.  I have not been able to find out under what
> circumstances this happens; most of the time, it does not.  It could
> possibly be due to a low memory situation, but that's just a guess.  I
> most often see this in situations where the laptop is generally
> sluggish, anyway, typically when firefox has bloated too much and
> needs restarting.

As workaround, type C-uC-cC-k to kill stunnel.

> Have other people seen this?  I'm assuming it is stunnel's fault, but
> I suppose it is possible that it could be something that mew does
> wrong, like not closing a connection or something.  But then the
> stunnel process at the other end should not exit, and so not end up a
> zombie, or so I imagine.  So stunnel itself is still my main suspect.
> 
> FWIW, I am running stunnel from macports.  It is version 4.20.

I have been using stunnel v4.20 (from macports) for a long time and I
have never seen such a phenomenon...

P.S.

"sudo port -s install stunnel" enforces building stunnel from its
source.

--Kazu