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["Tony Spencer" <tony AT tonyspencer.com>]

Does anyone have any experience with Apache processes appearing as
'defunct'?

-bash-2.05b$ ps -ef | grep httpd
nobody   31100 29250  0 07:50 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd
-DSSL
nobody   31355 29250  1 07:51 ?        00:00:00 [httpd <defunct>]
nobody   31356 29250  0 07:51 ?        00:00:00 [httpd <defunct>]
nobody   31357 29250  0 07:51 ?        00:00:00 [httpd <defunct>]
nobody   31358 29250  0 07:51 ?        00:00:00 [httpd <defunct>]
nobody   31359 29250  0 07:51 ?        00:00:00 [httpd <defunct>]
nobody   31360 29250  0 07:51 ?        00:00:00 [httpd <defunct>]
nobody   31361 29250  0 07:51 ?        00:00:00 [httpd <defunct>]

I did some Googling.  I found everything from "its no big deal and it will
go away" to "it's DDOS attacks".

I tried restarting Apache and they didn't go away.



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