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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=teal face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:teal;font-weight:bold'>If my memory
serves me correctly, which is highly doubtful, I had a similar problem with
defunct processes on an earlier version of AIX that was corrected by an AIX
patch. The issue wasn’t due to Hobbit, but the symptoms were the same.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=teal face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:teal;font-weight:bold'>Perhaps
you should check to see if you have all the latest AIX patches installed.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:teal;font-weight:bold'>Just a
wild guess!<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Ginny Jaworski
[mailto:Ginny.Jaworski@marist.edu] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, January 29, 2009
4:15 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">hobbit@hswn.dk</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [hobbit] Hobbit
Generating Defunct Processes </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></font><font size=2 face=sans-serif><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family: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.</span></font> <br>
<font size=2 face=sans-serif><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif'>Here's
a sample of the ps output:</span></font> <br>
<br>
<font size=2 face=sans-serif><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif'>
50307 Z hobbit 331868 0 0 38 rt
0:00 <defunct></span></font> <br>
<font size=2 face=sans-serif><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif'>
50307 Z hobbit 344096 0 0 38 rt
0:00 <defunct></span></font> <br>
<font size=2 face=sans-serif><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif'>
50307 Z hobbit 348368 0 0 38 rt
0:00 <defunct></span></font> <br>
<font size=2 face=sans-serif><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif'>
50307 Z hobbit 372982 0 0 38 rt
0:00 <defunct></span></font> <br>
<font size=2 face=sans-serif><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif'>
50307 Z hobbit 376944 0 0 38 rt
0:00 <defunct></span></font> <br>
<font size=2 face=sans-serif><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif'>
50307 Z hobbit 385200 0 0 38 rt
0:00 <defunct></span></font> <br>
<font size=2 face=sans-serif><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif'>
50307 Z hobbit 389226 0 0 38 rt
0:00 <defunct></span></font> <br>
<font size=2 face=sans-serif><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif'>
50307 Z hobbit 393276 0 0 38 rt
0:00 <defunct></span></font> <br>
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<br>
<font size=2 face=sans-serif><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif'>Ginny
Jaworski</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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