xymon hostdata module going rogue

Hi everyone,

I have a xymon server running 4.3.21 that seems to be accumulating processes like these:

hobbit   28430  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    12:50   0:00 [xymond_hostdata] <defunct>
hobbit   28435  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    12:50   0:00 [xymond_hostdata] <defunct>
hobbit   28440  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    12:50   0:00 [xymond_hostdata] <defunct>
hobbit   28444  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    12:50   0:00 [xymond_hostdata] <defunct>
hobbit   28449  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    12:50   0:00 [xymond_hostdata] <defunct>
hobbit   28452  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        Z    12:50   0:00 [xymond_hostdata] <defunct>

It seemed related to drop messages, so I did a test.


[hobbit at retv6100 temp]$ xymon 127.0.0.1 "drop amds7101_na_lzb_hq" ; ps auxw |grep xymond_hostdata |wc -l
161
[hobbit at retv6100 temp]$ xymon 127.0.0.1 "drop amds7101_na_lzb_hq" ; ps auxw |grep xymond_hostdata |wc -l
162
[hobbit at retv6100 temp]$ xymon 127.0.0.1 "drop amds7101_na_lzb_hq" ; ps auxw |grep xymond_hostdata |wc -l
163
[hobbit at retv6100 temp]$ xymon 127.0.0.1 "drop amds7101_na_lzb_hq" ; ps auxw |grep xymond_hostdata |wc -l
164
[hobbit at retv6100 temp]$ xymon 127.0.0.1 "drop amds7101_na_lzb_hq" ; ps auxw |grep xymond_hostdata |wc -l
165
[hobbit at retv6100 temp]$ xymon 127.0.0.1 "drop amds7101_na_lzb_hq" ; ps auxw |grep xymond_hostdata |wc -l
166
[hobbit at retv6100 temp]$ xymon 127.0.0.1 "drop amds7101_na_lzb_hq" ; ps auxw |grep xymond_hostdata |wc -l
167

So every time I send a drop message I get a defunct process hanging out.  Bug in Xymon?

This is on RHEL5, xymon 4.3.21.

Thanks!

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