[hobbit] Hobbit Generating Defunct Processes

[Hubbard, Greg L]

I think that might be an artifact from AIX.  Hobbit launches processes
every 5 minutes that end.  AIX keeps them around in the process list as
"defunct" instead of just getting rid of them.
 
GLH


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	From: Ginny Jaworski [mailto:Ginny.Jaworski at marist.edu] 
	Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 4:15 PM
	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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