[mythtv-users] defunct mythfrontend children processes

[Mark Greenwood]

On Tuesday 17 Nov 2009 15:31:07 Johnny wrote:
> While looking into another problem I have noticed that I usually have
> from 1 to 3 defunct mythfrontend processes running. They are listed as
> children of the active mythfrontend process. I never noticed this
> before in the past. The defunct children are there immediately after
> mythfrontend starts. I have only seen it since I upgraded to Ubuntu
> 9.10 and mythtv .22. Is anybody else seeing this? Is this a bug of
> some sort? Or is this normal and of no concern?
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Me too. The following is 24 hours after a reboot:

bob at revo:~$ ps -ael | grep myth
0 S   103   944   943  1  80   0 - 245023 poll_s ?       00:32:30 mythbackend
0 S  1000  1982     1  7  80   0 - 202592 poll_s ?       03:56:55 mythfrontend.re
1 Z  1000  2116  1982  0  80   0 -     0 exit   ?        00:00:00 mythfrontend.re <defunct>