I think that might be an artifact from AIX. Hobbit launches processes
every 5 minutes that end. AIX keeps them around in the process list as
"defunct" instead of just getting rid of them.
GLH
From: Ginny Jaworski [mailto:user-eac184b7c47e@xymon.invalid] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 4:15 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] Hobbit Generating Defunct Processes
I have Hobbit running on a IBM P6 lpar, with AIX 5.3 installed.
It seems about every 3-4 minutes a 'defunct' process is started by
hobbit. I have tried uninstalling and re-installing Hobbit, and
rebooting the server. The defunct processes are still being generated.
Does anyone have any idea on what is causing this? Thanks for your
help. Here's a sample of the ps output:
50307 Z hobbit 331868 0 0 38 rt
0:00 <defunct> 50307 Z hobbit 344096 0 0 38 rt
0:00 <defunct> 50307 Z hobbit 348368 0 0 38 rt
0:00 <defunct> 50307 Z hobbit 372982 0 0 38 rt
0:00 <defunct> 50307 Z hobbit 376944 0 0 38 rt
0:00 <defunct> 50307 Z hobbit 385200 0 0 38 rt
0:00 <defunct> 50307 Z hobbit 389226 0 0 38 rt
0:00 <defunct> 50307 Z hobbit 393276 0 0 38 rt
0:00 <defunct>
Ginny Jaworski