>Number:         7673
>Category:       port-vax
>Synopsis:       1.4 NetBSD/vax GENERIC kernel zombie processes
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    port-vax-maintainer (NetBSD/vax Portmaster)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sun May 30 16:05:00 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Brian Chase
>Organization:
>Release:        NetBSD/vax 1.4
>Environment:
	MicroVAX II, NetBSD/vax 1.4
System: NetBSD vaxzilla 1.4 NetBSD 1.4 (DEBUG) #0: Sat May 29 03:34:10 PDT 1999 root@futplex:/usr/src/sys/arch/vax/compile/DEBUG vax


>Description:
	Compiling a clean GENERIC kernel under the NetBSD/vax 1.4 distribution
	yields a kernel fails to clear zombie processes.  Mostly I noticed
	portmap and cron daemon processes lingering around.  After a while
	the process table fills up and then you're just stuck.
>How-To-Repeat:
	Get a copy of the pristine 1.4 sources.  Use the config util on the
	provided GENERIC kernel configuration file.  Compile and then boot
	the GENERIC kernel.
>Fix:
	A workaround is to add the kernel debugger options to the GENERIC
	kernel configuration file.  Adding "options DDB" causes the 
	problem to go away.
>Audit-Trail:
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