If my memory serves me correctly, which is highly doubtful, I had a
similar problem with defunct processes on an earlier version of AIX that
was corrected by an AIX patch. The issue wasn't due to Hobbit, but the
symptoms were the same.
Perhaps you should check to see if you have all the latest AIX patches
installed.
Just a wild guess!
Jim Smith
Little Rock
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