[Bug 877894] Re: fuser forks and never reaps its children

[Graham Poulter]

We also found this problem: the PHP cron launches one fuser for each PHP
session file, and the process  is never reaped (remains in <defunct>
state)

Workaround for PHP is to remove the fuser check, which was only added
11.10 anyway.

This is the 11.10 cron job:

09,39 * * * * root [ -x /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime ] && [ -d
/var/lib/php5 ] && find /var/lib/php5/ -depth -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1
-type f -cmin +$(/usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime) ! -execdir fuser -s {}
2>/dev/null \; -delete

And this is the 11.04 cron job:

09,39 * * * * root [ -x /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime ] && [ -d
/var/lib/php5 ] && find /var/lib/php5/ -depth -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1
-type f -cmin +$(/usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime) -delete

** Also affects: php5 (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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