Zombie processes ...

[Marc G. Fournier]

Sorry ...

- have innd do it if non-peer or MODE READER

Running inn-STABLE-20060221.tar.gz, which was the latest version when I 
downloaded it ... no patches, just that tar file ...

On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, Bill Davidsen wrote:

> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
>> I just upgraded my server to the latest STABLE, to see if it would get rid
>> of the problems, but:
>>
>> USER    PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS  TT  STAT STARTED      TIME COMMAND
>> news  24474  7.0  0.0     0    0  ??  ZNJ  10:26PM   0:00.00  (nnrpd)
>> news  22145  8.0  1.9 166152 68660  ??  SsJ  10:04PM   2:49.04 /usr/local/news/bin/innd -p 3
>> news  24222  6.0  0.0     0    0  ??  ZNJ  10:24PM   0:00.00  (nnrpd)
>> news  24477  4.0  0.0     0    0  ??  ZNJ  10:26PM   0:00.00  (nnrpd)
>> news  24184  4.0  0.0     0    0  ??  ZNJ  10:24PM   0:00.00  (nnrpd)
>> news  24424  2.6  0.0     0    0  ??  ZNJ  10:25PM   0:00.00  (nnrpd)
>> news  24479  3.0  0.0     0    0  ??  ZNJ  10:26PM   0:00.00  (nnrpd)
>> news  24476  3.0  0.0     0    0  ??  ZNJ  10:26PM   0:00.00  (nnrpd)
>> news  24472  3.0  0.0     0    0  ??  ZNJ  10:26PM   0:00.00  (nnrpd)
>> news  24511  3.0  0.0     0    0  ??  ZNJ  10:27PM   0:00.00  (nnrpd)
>> news  24455  3.0  0.0     0    0  ??  ZNJ  10:26PM   0:00.00  (nnrpd)
>> news  24221  3.0  0.0     0    0  ??  ZNJ  10:24PM   0:00.00  (nnrpd)
>> news  24193  3.0  0.0     0    0  ??  ZNJ  10:24PM   0:00.00  (nnrpd)
>>
>> I have a cron job that actually retarts the server once an hour to get rid
>> of them, else they fill up the server ...
>>
>> Something I can look at / check?
>>
>
> How do you start nnrpd? There are at least three ways I've used:
> - have innd do it if non-peer or MODE READER
> - innd on an alternate port and nnrpd -D
> - innd on an alternate port and xinetd starts
>
> I have never had a problem with the first two reaping zombies. Versions
> and patches would be nice as well.
>
> -- 
> bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
>  CTO TMR Associates, Inc
>  Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
>
>
>
>

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