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A common cause is forking lots of children without reclaiming the zombies using wait or waitpid.
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Re^4: Apache / 30,000 Perl script serving limit
by QcMonk (Novice) on May 06, 2009 at 18:55 UTC

    I am told here that if that was the case we would see the process table line (nproc) climb like crazy, and it stayed pretty constant trhough the test.

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