[ale] Any Perl Gurus Out There?

[jimpop at yahoo.com (Jim Popovitch)]

The linux kernel will clean up defunct processes when it has time (low
priority).  Most likely your loop is "too tight" and injecting some
latency periods will help.  Try adding a "sleep 2;" at the bottom of
your loop.

-Jim P.

On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 06:43 -0500, Jonathan Glass wrote:
> I've written a little Perl script to monitor a log file and alert (in 
> this case, insert the flagged data into a DB) on a certain pattern.  The 
> parent process sits in an infinite loop watching the file, and whenever 
> the pattern is matched, a child process is forked to do the DB 
> insertion.  Anyone know the proper way to handle the death of all these 
> child processes?  If I run a 'ps -aef' on the box while the script is 
> running, I see dozens of '<defunct>' processes.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Jonathan Glass
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