[hobbit] Hobbit Generating Defunct Processes
Ginny Jaworski
Ginny.Jaworski at marist.edu
Wed Feb 4 15:15:41 CET 2009
I solved my problem by calling IBM and they had me download and install
the latest fixpack for AIX 5.3 T/L 7... this brought me up to Service Pack
7 (5300-07-07-0846). I rebooted the server after applying the updates and
the defunct processes are no longer generated. Hope this helps.
Ginny Jaworski
Marist College
Information Technology
3399 North Road
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
(845)575-3940
ginny.jaworski at marist.edu
From:
"Morsiani, Massimo" <massimo.morsiani at gilbarco.com>
To:
<hobbit at hswn.dk>
Date:
02/04/2009 08:22 AM
Subject:
RE: [hobbit] Hobbit Generating Defunct Processes
Hi Chris,
this is my situation:
>ps -fuhobbit
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
hobbit 225280 0 0 0:00 <defunct>
hobbit 229620 0 0 0:00 <defunct>
hobbit 233674 0 0 0:00 <defunct>
hobbit 237768 0 0 0:00 <defunct>
hobbit 245904 0 0 0:00 <defunct>
hobbit 303256 0 0 0:00 <defunct>
hobbit 315414 0 0 0:00 <defunct>
hobbit 327716 0 0 0:00 <defunct>
hobbit 364642 0 0 0:00 <defunct>
hobbit 368788 0 0 0:00 <defunct>
hobbit 376872 0 0 0:00 <defunct>
hobbit 385240 0 0 0:00 <defunct>
hobbit 389198 0 0 0:00 <defunct>
hobbit 405566 0 0 0:00 <defunct>
hobbit 417912 0 0 0:00 <defunct>
hobbit 422090 0 0 0:00 <defunct>
hobbit 450706 0 0 0:00 <defunct>
hobbit 454794 0 0 0:00 <defunct>
hobbit 467118 0 0 0:00 <defunct>
hobbit 479276 0 0 0:00 <defunct>
hobbit 516318 0 0 0:00 <defunct>
hobbit 520202 0 0 0:00 <defunct>
hobbit 544846 0 0 0:00 <defunct>
hobbit 548904 0 0 0:00 <defunct>
hobbit 553158 0 0 0:00 <defunct>
hobbit 557074 0 0 0:00 <defunct>
hobbit 561346 0 0 0:00 <defunct>
hobbit 565458 0 0 0:00 <defunct>
hobbit 569480 0 0 0:00 <defunct>
hobbit 573476 0 0 0:00 <defunct>
hobbit 577604 0 0 0:00 <defunct>
hobbit 585872 0 0 0:00 <defunct>
<... and more ...>
So the process is hobbit/xymon client.
Any suggestion?
Regards.
Massimo Morsiani
Information Technology Dept.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Chris.Morris at RWEsystemsUK.com [mailto:Chris.Morris at RWEsystemsUK.com]
Sent: mercoledì 4 febbraio 2009 10.40
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Hobbit Generating Defunct Processes
Read this document and try to resolve what process is generating the
defunct/zombie processes.
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=1203&dc=DA480&dc=DA200&dc=DA490&dc=DA410&dc=DA400&dc=D600&dc=DB520&dc=D400&dc=D700&dc=DB510&dc=DA470&dc=DA460&dc=DA4A20&dc=DB550&dc=DA4A30&q1=defunct+processes&uid=isg3T1010692&loc=en_US&cs=UTF-8&lang=all
I run Hobbit/Xymon server and clients on AIX 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 and 6.1 and do
not have such a problem.
Regards,
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: Morsiani, Massimo [mailto:massimo.morsiani at gilbarco.com]
Sent: 04 February 2009 09:24
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Hobbit Generating Defunct Processes
Hi all,
I have exactly the same issue on our IBM machines with AIX 5.3 (oslevel
-r: 5300-08).
I'm using Stef's hobbit/xymon client downloaded from
http://www.docum.org/foswiki/bin/view/Xymon/Aix5HobbitClient .
Does anyone find proper patch we have to apply?
Regards.
Massimo Morsiani
Information Technology Dept.
------
Gilbarco S.r.l.
via de' Cattani, 220/G
50145 Firenze, Italy
tel: +39-055-30941
fax: +39-055-318603
email: massimo.morsiani at gilbarco.com
web: http://www.gilbarco.it <http://www.gilbarco.it/>
________________________________
From: Ginny Jaworski [mailto:Ginny.Jaworski at marist.edu]
Sent: giovedì 29 gennaio 2009 23.15
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: [hobbit] Hobbit Generating Defunct Processes
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.
Here's a sample of the ps output:
50307 Z hobbit 331868 0 0 38 rt 0:00 <defunct>
50307 Z hobbit 344096 0 0 38 rt 0:00 <defunct>
50307 Z hobbit 348368 0 0 38 rt 0:00 <defunct>
50307 Z hobbit 372982 0 0 38 rt 0:00 <defunct>
50307 Z hobbit 376944 0 0 38 rt 0:00 <defunct>
50307 Z hobbit 385200 0 0 38 rt 0:00 <defunct>
50307 Z hobbit 389226 0 0 38 rt 0:00 <defunct>
50307 Z hobbit 393276 0 0 38 rt 0:00 <defunct>
Ginny Jaworski
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