[Orca-users] RE: <defunct> orca processes ....

[Camron W. Fox]

>>"Camron W. Fox" wrote:
>>
>> Alle,
>>
>>         We have been running orca in daemon mode for the last 48 hours
with logging
>> turned on because it kept dying mysteriously and we could not find the
>> cause. Now orca is not dying but it has created several (1018 at last
count)
>> <defunct> processes, which now causes it to fail because there are too
many
>> open files.
>>         Has anyone had experience with this? I looked at the archive and
found the
>> issue about the "/usr/bin/bzip2" path, but that doesn't apply in our
case.
>
> Why doesn't it apply?  Which compression program are you using?
>
> How high have you set the number of open file descriptors for the
> Orca process?

	Sorry, I mean it doesn't apply because bzip2 is where orca thinks it is, at
/usr/bin/bzip2. And that's what we're using. Open files are set at the
system default of 1024.


Best Regards,
Camron

Camron W. Fox
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