zms processes won't die

[mrmike]

Okay, I'm sure most forum-regulars around here are rolling their eyes at me and thinking -- "haven't you run a search?? We've dealt with this before..."

Well, unfortunately everything I've found so far (after hours of searching) has lead me nowhere and I am beginning to wonder if this issue has not been resolved yet.

I am running the LiveCD 1.19.5 zoneminder version happily on a ~700mhz Celeron machine / 256mb ram (I know, it was a throw-together machine). All works fine and dandy until you begin to look at image streams. The zms process gets started... but never dies. Each new image stream spawns a new process, each taking a healthy share of CPU load with them.

I nearly fried the machine before I realized this is what was going on... it would just progressively get slower and slowwwwer until I couldn't even log in via SSH. I finally managed to after waiting minutes to log on and issue a reboot.

Here's the details:

- Running 1.19.5 (as mentioned above)
- Apache 2.0.48

From the searching I did do, I gathered that this was a known issue and it was supposed to have been resolved already by this Apache release. Unfortunately, I can attest that this is not the case. I've run a few experiments while watching the system's status via top and I've managed to bode well by identifying and manually killing the rogue zms processes.

Am I incorrect as far as the status of this bug? Is it not resolved on the Apache end?

If anyone else has run into this, I would greatly appreciate any info as to how you might have navigated your way around it.

Many thanks !!!