Zombie processes

[guy keren]

sammy ominsky wrote:
> On 03/01/2010, at 18:22, Raz wrote:
> 
>> look for open descriptors with lsof.
> 
> Thanks!  I've pretty much got it pegged as a problem with playrecording.php, but I haven't found the reason yet.  Going to assign it to one of my staff coders to investigate.  The sysadmins were sadly clueless :)

sys admins who are not programmers have a very small chance of analyzing 
such a problem - because this is a software (bug) problem, not a system 
administration problem. don't blame them for not being able to do 
something that is completely not within their profession.

application programmers often do not understand these kind of bugs, 
because they are not systems programmers - they understand the 
application, but not the small intricacies of the unix programming model.

you need a systems programmer to analyze such bugs.

--guy