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

[Camron W. Fox]

"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?

	We are using 0.27b2 and orcallator.cfg.

Best Regards,
Camron