About the zombie fastcgi process

I was WRONG in the previous post, sometime we will see some zombie fastcgi process running, but that is perfectly OK because when lighttpd receive the new request, it will invoke waitpid and then the zombie process will be gone! The chance of invoking waitpid on the zombie process depends on the amount of max-worker of lighttpd, but it will eventually be invoke by the parent process. It is just the matter of time :)