[gentoo-user] distccd offspring

[Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@gmail.com>]

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I have this in the output of "ps axf"

  532 ?        SN     0:00  \_ /usr/bin/distccd --user distcc --daemon
--no-detach --log-stderr --log-level notice --port 3632 --listen
192.168.1.131 --allow 192.168.1.128
  536 ?        SN     0:00  |   \_ /usr/bin/distccd --user distcc --daemon
--no-detach --log-stderr --log-level notice --port 3632 --listen
192.168.1.131 --allow 192.168.1.128

Process 532 is what it is supposed to be. But why the child 536? Not to
mention 17 more children just like 536, which I didn't paste.
The distccd daemon is alive but not really working, as it has nothing to
do: I use this about once  a week (for world updating, eventually kernel
compiling), and today the 192.168.1.128 client is not even on. I checked
the distccd log, nothing there. The connection is by ethernet cable.
distccd works just fine when required to.

So, what could lead it to spawn so many useless children? I couldn't find
anything in the manual, and googling doesn't seem to help.


Any distcc user in the same boat?

Thanks

Jorge Almeida

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