AW: [hobbit] increasing no. of hobbitd zombie's

[Heinecke at hansenet.com]

Hi Arnoud,

ahhh... OK.
Then, i guess, it's not exclusively forced by my local setup. 
BTW, setting '--checkpoint-interval' up to 3600 sec's alters the behavior to the expected 'one zombie per hour'.

hobbit at hswn.dk : FYI ...

:-) Thanks, Michael


-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Arnoud Post [mailto:arnoud at koekiemonster.com]
Gesendet: Dienstag, 25. Oktober 2005 12:13
An: Heinecke, Michael HTK
Betreff: Re: [hobbit] increasing no. of hobbitd zombie's


Same here on a default install on FreeBSD 5.3.

Best Regards,
Arnoud Post

Quoting Heinecke at hansenet.com:

> Hi,
>
> every "checkpoint-interval" i get a new hobbitd zombie process.
>
> #> ps auxwww
> ----snip ---
> hobbit   25559  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    11:06   0:00 
> [hobbitd] <defunct>
> hobbit   25917  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    11:16   0:00 
> [hobbitd] <defunct>
> hobbit   26283  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    11:26   0:00 
> [hobbitd] <defunct>
> hobbit   26648  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    11:36   0:00 
> [hobbitd] <defunct>
> ----snip ---
>
> hobbitlaunch.cfg: [hobbitd] section:
>
> CMD hobbitd --debug --pidfile=$BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitd.pid 
> --restart=$BBTMP/hobbitd.chk --checkpoint-file=$BBTMP/hobbitd.chk 
> --checkpoint-interval=600 --log=$BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitd.log 
> --admin-senders=127.0.0.1,$BBSERVERIP
>
> ... the last zombie appears at 11:36 ..., this is the hobbitd.log 
> (debug mode) - look's good, i think ;-)
>
> ...
> 2005-10-25 11:36:11 Sending heartbeat to pid 25202
> 2005-10-25 11:36:17 Sending heartbeat to pid 25202
> 2005-10-25 11:36:17 -> check_purple_status
> 2005-10-25 11:36:17 <- check_purple_status
> 2005-10-25 11:36:17 -> generate_stats
> 2005-10-25 11:36:17 <- generate_stats
> 2005-10-25 11:36:17 -> get_hts
> 2005-10-25 11:36:17 <- get_hts
> 2005-10-25 11:36:17 ->handle_status
> 2005-10-25 11:36:17 posting to status channel
> 2005-10-25 11:36:17 -> posttochannel
> 2005-10-25 11:36:17 Dropping message - no readers
> 2005-10-25 11:36:17 <-handle_status
> 2005-10-25 11:36:23 Sending heartbeat to pid 25202
> 2005-10-25 11:36:25 -> save_checkpoint
> 2005-10-25 11:36:25 <- save_checkpoint
> 2005-10-25 11:36:29 Sending heartbeat to pid 25202
> 2005-10-25 11:36:35 Sending heartbeat to pid 25202
> ...
>
> This happens on Debian LINUX 3.1 'Sarge'. Analog config on different 
> Solaris 8 SPARC Boxes => no problem.
>
> On the Debian box, i have DISABLED bbdisplay in hobbitlaunch.cfg, 
> because this box should only act as a kind of LAN probe (only bb-net 
> and forwarding of LAN client stati to a central bbdisplay)
> No big issue (my next step: increase the checkpoint interval ;-) - 
> but maybe someone else may run into trouble.
>
> :-) Michael
>
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