<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I have Hobbit running on a IBM P6 lpar,
with AIX 5.3 installed. It seems about every 3-4 minutes a 'defunct'
process is started by hobbit. I have tried uninstalling and re-installing
Hobbit, and rebooting the server. The defunct processes are still
being generated. Does anyone have any idea on what is causing this?
Thanks for your help.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Here's a sample of the ps output:</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> 50307 Z hobbit 331868
0 0 38 rt
0:00 <defunct></font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> 50307 Z hobbit 344096
0 0 38 rt
0:00 <defunct></font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> 50307 Z hobbit 348368
0 0 38 rt
0:00 <defunct></font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> 50307 Z hobbit 372982
0 0 38 rt
0:00 <defunct></font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> 50307 Z hobbit 376944
0 0 38 rt
0:00 <defunct></font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> 50307 Z hobbit 385200
0 0 38 rt
0:00 <defunct></font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> 50307 Z hobbit 389226
0 0 38 rt
0:00 <defunct></font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> 50307 Z hobbit 393276
0 0 38 rt
0:00 <defunct></font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Ginny Jaworski<br>
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