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