[Orca-users] Re: Accumulation of orca defunct processes over time.

[Blair Zajac]

Upgrade to Orca 0.27b2, it fixes this bug.

        * lib/Orca/SourceFile.pm: To fix a bug where Orca would leave
          around many defunct bunzip2, gunzip or uncompress processes
          when reading compressed input data files.  Now when
          load_new_data has reached the end of the input data file,
          use the new OpenFileHash->is_pipe method to determine if the
          file descriptor was opened with a bunzip2, gunzip or
          uncompress pipe, and if so, close the file descriptor, since
          there cannot be anyway for additional data to appear after a
          pipe has been closed.  This will close and remove the
          defunct processes from the system.

Blair

> Erik Melander wrote:
> 
> The orca process is running on a RedHat 7.1 box with the base Perl rpm
> installed (v. 5.6.0-12).  Over
> time I accumulate approximately 5 to 8 defunct orca processes a day.  Any
> ideas how to debug this
> one?