12 Sep
2023
12 Sep
'23
5:16 p.m.
I have a somewhat related question.
I monitor the Mailman runner processes via cron and restart based on a drop in the number of processes. As a result I've noticed that the bounces runner process becomes defunct at varying times. For example, the cron job restarted the Mailman processes early this morning and I can see the bounce runner process is currently defunct (Z state). It appears to have become defunct after about 3 hours of CPU time.
From mailman.log: Sep 12 02:17:50 2023 (23350) bounces runner started.
From ps command: mailman 23350 0.6 0.0 0 0 ? Z 02:17 3:14 [python3] <defunct>
I don't see anything else in the logs that would indicate why the process is dying. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.