[Orca-users] Re: Orca and defunct processes on Solaris 8 [Sparc]

[dmoore48 at csc.com]

--- In orca-discuss at y..., Blair Zajac <blair at g...> wrote:
> Hi,

  ^^^ Hi Blair...
>
> Which systems are you seeing the defunct processes on?  I'm guessing
> its the host running Orca itself and not the hosts running
orcallator.
> Is this correct?
>
  ^^^ Yes - you're right, I'm having the problem on the host running
  Orca, not a client.

> I'm guessing that you have compressed orcallator output files that
> Orca is reading via zcat or bzcat and its not cleaning them up.
>
  ^^^ Orca is running gunzip / bunzip2 against the output files, and
  the spawned jobs are dropping into defunct.

> Which version of Perl and Orca are you using?  The newer versions
may
> handle this better?

  ^^^ I'm running ActivePerl-5.6 and Orca-1.27bl

>
> Best,
> Blair

  ^^^ Cheers.

  Dave.

>
> David Moore wrote:
> >
> > Hi..
> >      I'm running an Orca configuration with around 20 Solaris 7 /
8
> > clients
> >      [all Sparc].
> >
> >      The orca server process runs on a Solaris 8 box.
> >
> >      The orca / orcallator.se processes seem to be generating
large
> > numbers
> > of
> >      defunct processes [around 20 per day current average.]
> >
> >      The number of defunct processes I'm finding seems to be
gradually
> > increasing.
> >
> >      Is this a known problem on Solaris, and does anyone have a
> > solution
> > other than
> >      running a cron job to kill and restart orca / orcallator.se
to
> > hose
> > the defunct processes.
> >
> >     Thanks  in advance.
> >
> >     Dave Moore.
> >
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