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On Sat, Aug 11, 2012, Gary Kotton <gkotton at redhat.com> wrote:
> When using the Quantum agents with the RPC (which requires the
> monkeypatch). There are a number of Zombie processes:
> 
> root      1038  0.0  0.0      0     0 pts/4    Z+   19:27   0:00
> [sudo] <defunct>
> root      1087  0.0  0.0      0     0 pts/4    Z+   19:27   0:00
> [sudo] <defunct>
> root      1100  0.0  0.0      0     0 pts/4    Z+   19:27   0:00
> [sudo] <defunct>
> root      1129  0.0  0.0      0     0 pts/4    Z+   19:27   0:00
> [sudo] <defunct>
> root      1171  0.0  0.0      0     0 pts/4    Z+   19:27   0:00
> [sudo] <defunct>
> root      1211  0.0  0.0      0     0 pts/4    Z+   19:27   0:00
> [sudo] <defunct>
> 
> I have found the following:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/718390 - I was unable to find
> the code that was patched to fix the problem.

That was pre-git. You can find the patch at this page and clicking on
"Diff: 19 lines (-1/+1) 1 file modified":

https://code.launchpad.net/~soren/nova/eventlet-subprocess

> For a test I used the execute function from nova. This did not help.
> 
> Does anybody have an idea how to address this?

Hopefully the same patch helps.

JE