[hobbit] Hobbit Generating Defunct Processes

Wed Feb 4 15:10:54 CET 2009

Is this a standard client? Is it running any external tests? 

It was compiled on AIX 5.1 I think!

I have a client compiled on AIX 5.3-06-04 which you could try and see if problem is still there.

Regards,
Chris  

-----Original Message-----
From: Morsiani, Massimo [mailto:massimo.morsiani at gilbarco.com] 
Sent: 04 February 2009 13:22
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
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. 
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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/>  

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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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