Hi Arnoud,

ahhh... OK. Then, i guess, it's not exclusively forced by my local setup. BTW, setting '--checkpoint-interval' up to 3600 sec's alters the behavior to the expected 'one zombie per hour'.

hobbit at hswn.dk : FYI ...

:-) Thanks, Michael

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Arnoud Post [mailto:arnoud at koekiemonster.com] Gesendet: Dienstag, 25. Oktober 2005 12:13 An: Heinecke, Michael HTK Betreff: Re: [hobbit] increasing no. of hobbitd zombie's

Same here on a default install on FreeBSD 5.3.

Best Regards, Arnoud Post

Quoting Heinecke at hansenet.com:

Hi,

every "checkpoint-interval" i get a new hobbitd zombie process.

#> ps auxwww ----snip --- hobbit 25559 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:06 0:00 [hobbitd] <defunct> hobbit 25917 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:16 0:00 [hobbitd] <defunct> hobbit 26283 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:26 0:00 [hobbitd] <defunct> hobbit 26648 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:36 0:00 [hobbitd] <defunct> ----snip ---

hobbitlaunch.cfg: [hobbitd] section:

CMD hobbitd --debug --pidfile=$BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitd.pid --restart=$BBTMP/hobbitd.chk --checkpoint-file=$BBTMP/hobbitd.chk --checkpoint-interval=600 --log=$BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitd.log --admin-senders=127.0.0.1,$BBSERVERIP

... the last zombie appears at 11:36 ..., this is the hobbitd.log (debug mode) - look's good, i think ;-)

... 2005-10-25 11:36:11 Sending heartbeat to pid 25202 2005-10-25 11:36:17 Sending heartbeat to pid 25202 2005-10-25 11:36:17 -> check_purple_status 2005-10-25 11:36:17 <- check_purple_status 2005-10-25 11:36:17 -> generate_stats 2005-10-25 11:36:17 <- generate_stats 2005-10-25 11:36:17 -> get_hts 2005-10-25 11:36:17 <- get_hts 2005-10-25 11:36:17 ->handle_status 2005-10-25 11:36:17 posting to status channel 2005-10-25 11:36:17 -> posttochannel 2005-10-25 11:36:17 Dropping message - no readers 2005-10-25 11:36:17 <-handle_status 2005-10-25 11:36:23 Sending heartbeat to pid 25202 2005-10-25 11:36:25 -> save_checkpoint 2005-10-25 11:36:25 <- save_checkpoint 2005-10-25 11:36:29 Sending heartbeat to pid 25202 2005-10-25 11:36:35 Sending heartbeat to pid 25202 ...

This happens on Debian LINUX 3.1 'Sarge'. Analog config on different Solaris 8 SPARC Boxes => no problem.

On the Debian box, i have DISABLED bbdisplay in hobbitlaunch.cfg, because this box should only act as a kind of LAN probe (only bb-net and forwarding of LAN client stati to a central bbdisplay) No big issue (my next step: increase the checkpoint interval ;-) - but maybe someone else may run into trouble.

:-) Michael

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