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

[Blair Zajac]

"Camron W. Fox" wrote:
> 
> >>"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.

Which version of Orca are you using?

Are you using orcallator.cfg or a different configuration file?

Best,
Blair

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Blair Zajac <blair at orcaware.com>
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