Why is CRON generating many child zombie processes?

[cesarmsj]

These are the schedules we have at CRON. Zabbix is ​​warning us that there are many processes in PFSense, when I went to see, there were many zombie processes, with the father being CRON. How can I resolve this without having to restart the server?

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[Gertjan]

These :

are non-default.

What pfSense version is this ?

Remove the package that included the extra cron lines.
Squid, cron.

Where does "swapstate_check.php" comes from ?

[bmeeks]

@cesarmsj said in Why is CRON generating many child zombie processes?:

These are the schedules we have at CRON. Zabbix is ​​warning us that there are many processes in PFSense, when I went to see, there were many zombie processes, with the father being CRON. How can I resolve this without having to restart the server?

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The two entries at the bottom of the list for Snort jobs are normal when you install the Snort package. One has cron execute a task every 5 minutes to see if any log files need rotating, and the other job checks to see if the Snort team (or Emerging Threats, when used) has posted a new set of rules. That job runs every 12 hours by default.

[cesarmsj]

@gertjan Version 2.4.5-RELEASE-p1. swapstate_check.php was already by default, and we need to get the Squid package installed.