RE: [hobbit] Hobbit Generating Defunct Processes

[Ginny Jaworski <Ginny.Jaworski (at) marist.edu>]

That is what I thought was happening, however, I have Hobbit running on a 
few other AIX servers.  This just started happening on this server in the 
last few days.  Before that, things seemed okay.  The other AIX servers 
don't seem to keep the defunct processes around.  Any idea why it does it 
on some servers and not others?  I rebooted the server yesterday afternoon 
to clear them up.   I have 215 defunct processes this morning.   Are there 
any configurations in  Hobbit  that I can stop it from reporting the 
defunct procs on the Hobbit Server?

Thanks,



Ginny Jaworski




From:
"Hubbard, Greg L" <greg.hubbard (at) eds.com>
To:
<hobbit (at) hswn.dk>
Date:
01/29/2009 05:27 PM
Subject:
RE: [hobbit] Hobbit Generating Defunct Processes



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

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