While i am far from truly knowing much about these things i agree with zentara's statement I think you are confusing defunct processes with threads. I believe defunct process are the result of exec, fork or certain types of system calls. It is those that you have to wait on. I think to solve this problem we will need to see the areas of your code that use those rather than where you start threads.

Someone else more knowledgeable than me will probably also pipe up about the fact that the use of switch is discouraged. While it MAY not be the cause of your current fire you may want to look into ways to replace its use with more "modern" perl code

In reply to Re: defunct process are WAY beyond my experienc by huck
in thread defunct process are WAY beyond my experienc by cristj1

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