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Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 10:41:14 +0100
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* Vasya Pupkin (Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:26:29 +0300)
> I have a problem running cygwin sshd. I often end up with a lot of
> bash processes running and eating memory while there are no single
> active ssh session. It happens when either connection lost or user
> closes connection without logging out, sshd process dies but bash
> remains in memory forever. Is it possible to prevent this? In all real
> unix environments this never happen, bash always dies when parent sshd
> exits.

That is (or was) an old problem as far as I remember. Search the mailing 
list archives to see if it is supposed to be fixed or a workaround is 
available. Maybe someone else here remembers more than me...

Thorsten


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