183778 - mozilla spawns zombied netstat

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 51429

(NSS :: Libraries, defect)

Description

[Jeremy M. Dolan]

I don't know why, but every day for the last 6 months or so, mozilla zombies
netstat:

mozilla   1891  0.0  0.6  2056  768 pts/3    S    13:19   0:00 /bin/sh
  /opt/mozilla/20021202/run-mozilla.sh /opt/mozilla/20021202/mo
mozilla   1901 14.4 61.3 178704 77372 pts/3  R    13:19   5:30
  /opt/mozilla/20021202/mozilla-bin
mozilla   1964  0.0  0.0     0    0 pts/3    Z    13:39   0:00 [netstat
  <defunct>]

I don't see netstat in it's startup scripts anywhere... but the only thing I run
as use 'mozilla' is mozilla. netstat is a child process of mozilla. Somehow.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

I've seen it too.. latest today when mozilla hang. So did "netstat <defunct>".
No CPU was used.  However: I have crossover plugins installed and i suspect the
hang was related to a plugin that didn't load: also the winserver and
pluginserver had gone defunct. Do you have Crossover installed? Or see any
plugin related processes alongside the netstat?

Comment 2

[Jeremy M. Dolan]

I have no plugins.

Comment 3

[R.K.Aa.]

over to Networking HTTP

Comment 4

[Jo Hermans]

is it the netstat that is called in
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/security/nss/lib/freebl/unix_rand.c#816
? Then it should be assigned to NSS.

Comment 5

[Darin Fisher]

-> NSS

Comment 6

[Wan-Teh Chang]

Darin,

This netstat process is indeed started up by NSS.
The zombie netstat process is a known bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 51429 ***