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On 08/12/2012 12:22 AM, Johannes Erdfelt wrote:
> 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.

Thank you. Yes, this helps. In the nova/utils.py I see that this is no 
longer used. Any idea why?
>
> JE
>