[Orca-users] Re: orca spawns <defunct> process daily

[blah at eth0.net]

I'm having the exact sma eproblem with an almost identical
configuration. Lots of gzip -c procs that start defunctly regularly
(recent reboot had 619 defuncts of orca).

Solaris 2.6/Orca 0.26/perl 5.00404 (just installed most recent 2.6
recommended patch cluster last week, and was contemplating going to
perl 5.6.0 today)
We're also ssh rsyncing the data to one central server for munging.

Yikees, I just checked and there are 646 defuncts (system last
rebooted last night) and they are all orcallator children.

Let me know what other diagnostic info you'd like to see. I'd really
love to put this to bed

Thanks for any help,
-Shawn

--- In orca-users at y..., Blair Zajac <blair at a...> wrote:
> Are your input percol files compressed?  Orca will use zcat or gzcat
> to uncompress these and its possible this is the issue.  Orca should
> clean these up, so its odd that you are seeing them.
>
> Is it the same defunct processes that exist day after day or is it
> a new set of processes each time you check?
>
> Regards,
> Blair
>
> kim.taylor at p... wrote:
> >
> > I've found Orca is accumulating one new <defunct> process per day.
> >
> > Orca version 0.26 on Solaris 2.6 running continously (not via
cron.)
> > I start it with nice and nohup.
> >
> > Data is rsync'd over SSH from ~30 clients every 5 min.
> >
> > Anyone else seeing this happen?
> >
> >     UID   PID PPID  C  STIME TTY    TIME CMD
> > nobody  24200    1  0 Feb 16 ?      2:10 /bin/ksh -p
> > /usr/local/bin/orcallector
> > nobody  24441    1 71 Feb 16 ?   3988:19 /usr/local/bin/perl -w
> > /usr/local/bin/orca /usr/local/lib/orcallator.cfg
> >
> > /usr/proc/bin/ptree 24441
> > 24441 /usr/local/bin/perl -w /usr/local/bin/orca
> > /usr/local/lib/orcallator.cfg
> >   2613  <defunct>
> >   19071 <defunct>
> >   685   <defunct>
> >   15355 <defunct>
> >   6719  <defunct>
> >
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