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# sk121093 - funcchain spawns zombie processes

| Property | Value |
|----------|-------|
| Solution ID | sk121093 |
| Date Created | 2017-10-24 |
| Last Modified | 2017-10-26 |
| Technical Level | Advanced |
| Products | Security Gateway |
| Versions | R82.10, R82, R81.20 |

## Symptoms

- See zombie processes in top.  
top - 13:30:33 up 246 days, 16:43, 3 users, load average: 0.15, 0.29, 0.36  
Tasks: 2078 total, 1 running, 292 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1785 zombie  
Cpu0 : 2.3%us, 3.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 92.1%id, 1.3%wa, 0.0%hi, 1.0%si, 0.0%st  
Cpu1 : 5.3%us, 2.6%sy, 0.0%ni, 91.1%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 1.0%si, 0.0%st  
Cpu2 : 5.6%us, 1.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 91.8%id, 0.7%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.7%si, 0.0%st  
Cpu3 : 4.0%us, 1.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 94.4%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.7%si, 0.0%st  
Mem: 16227212k total, 11101264k used, 5125948k free, 591888k buffers  
Swap: 12578884k total, 0k used, 12578884k free, 5123792k cached  
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND  
7581 admin 0 -20 733m 195m 41m S 10 1.2 22998:52 fwk1_dev  
7457 admin 0 -20 602m 65m 22m S 3 0.4 3490:26 fwk4_dev  
7470 admin 0 -20 741m 204m 43m S 2 1.3 2207:15 fwk2_dev  
317 admin 15 0 0 0 0 Z 0 0.0 0:00.59 funcchain \<� defunct� \>  
325 admin 15 0 0 0 0 Z 0 0.0 0:00.57 funcchain \<� defunct� \>  
353 admin 15 0 0 0 0 Z 0 0.0 0:00.60 funcchain \<� defunct� \>  
365 admin 15 0 0 0 0 Z 0 0.0 0:00.59 funcchain \<� defunct� \>  
399 admin 15 0 57080 38m 10m S 0 0.2 250:52.21 rad  
409 admin 15 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 6:55.61 pdflush  
410 admin 15 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 5:30.92 pdflush  
411 admin 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kswapd0  
412 admin 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0  
413 admin 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/1  
414 admin 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/2  
415 admin 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/3

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