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udev package

  1. Bug #407428
  2. Comment #34

Comment 34 for bug 407428

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Johannes (johannes-claesson) wrote : Re: sshd zombie processes and strange behavior after karmic upgrade

I can also confirm this problem. As can I confirm that "/etc/init.d/ssh restart" is a valid (but time consuming and probably proportional in time to number of processes) workaround. When I noticed this problem (after about 15 hours of uptime), there were something in the region of 3000 defunct ssh PID:s so it'd basically take a week of uptime to fill up all the PID:s. I don't know for sure, but that could be a bad thing. :P