Script menu makes perl zombies?

Thread view:

Enable EMail Alerts

Start New Thread

Thread rating:

Ken Williams - 08 Sep 2006 16:37 GMT

Hi,

For months I've been trying to figure out what's causing some perl
zombie processes on my system. Looks like it might be the script
menu. I have a script menu item called "tunnels.pl" that establishes
some SSH tunnels, and it works fine. But after I run it, I see this:

% ps auxww|grep '[p]erl'
ken 14697 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? Z 31Dec69 0:00.00
(perl)

Its parent process is 1982, which is /System/Library/CoreServices/
SystemUIServer.app/Contents/MacOS/S
ystemUIServer -psn_0_786433 .

Can other people confirm this? Any known bug covering this or
something (not sure where to look)?

-Ken

Reply to this Message

Michael Barto - 08 Sep 2006 17:16 GMT

I am not quite sure how you mean to verify this.

I ran a complex Perl program that take over 20 seconds and perform you
script every 5 seconds.

----------------------------
pwbk2003:~ root# ps auxww|grep '[p]erl'
pwbk2003:~ root# ps auxww|grep '[p]erl'
qstatus 329 78.4 3.0 56560 31660 ?? R 9:12AM 0:01.17
/usr/bin/perl -w
/Logiqwest/ApacheWeb/q-statusSolaris/q-statusSolaris/CGI/selectPatchdiag.cgi
pwbk2003:~ root# ps auxww|grep '[p]erl'
qstatus 329 86.7 3.4 59848 35196 ?? R 9:12AM 0:07.01
/usr/bin/perl -w
/Logiqwest/ApacheWeb/q-statusSolaris/q-statusSolaris/CGI/selectPatchdiag.cgi
pwbk2003:~ root# ps auxww|grep '[p]erl'
qstatus 329 82.9 3.4 59848 35196 ?? R 9:12AM 0:12.70
/usr/bin/perl -w
/Logiqwest/ApacheWeb/q-statusSolaris/q-statusSolaris/CGI/selectPatchdiag.cgi
pwbk2003:~ root# ps auxww|grep '[p]erl'
qstatus 329 91.3 3.4 59848 35196 ?? R 9:12AM 0:18.64
/usr/bin/perl -w
/Logiqwest/ApacheWeb/q-statusSolaris/q-statusSolaris/CGI/selectPatchdiag.cgi
pwbk2003:~ root# ps auxww|grep '[p]erl'
qstatus 329 86.0 3.4 59848 35196 ?? R 9:12AM 0:22.38
/usr/bin/perl -w
/Logiqwest/ApacheWeb/q-statusSolaris/q-statusSolaris/CGI/selectPatchdiag.cgi
pwbk2003:~ root# ps auxww|grep '[p]erl'
pwbk2003:~ root#
--------------------------

If your script is the problem, I will need the script.

> Hi,
>
[quoted text clipped - 15 lines]
>
> -Ken

Signature

------------------------------------------------------------------------
*Michael Barto*
Software Architect

LogiQwest Circle
LogiQwest Inc.
16458 Bolsa Chica Street, # 15
Huntington Beach, CA 92649
http://www.logiqwest.com/

mbarto@logiqwest.com <mailto:mbarto@logiqwest.com>
Tel: 714 377 3705
Fax: 714 840 3937
Cell: 714 883 1949

*'tis a gift to be simple*
------------------------------------------------------------------------
This e-mail may contain LogiQwest proprietary information and should be
treated as confidential.

Reply to this Message

Ken Williams - 08 Sep 2006 19:09 GMT

I'm talking about the script menu:

http://www.apple.com/applescript/scriptmenu/

Did you run your script from the script menu?

-Ken

> I am not quite sure how you mean to verify this.

Reply to this Message

Mac Forum / Programming / Perl / September 2006

Script menu makes perl zombies?