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