On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Markus <unive...@truemetal.org> wrote:
>
> I realized that for every completed rsync run on a share, two "defunct"
> processes remain:
>
> [BackupPC_dump] <defunct>
> [ssh] <defunct>
>
> And after I had about 750 defunct processes (after about 375 rsync runs
> on 375 different shares/directories) the whole backup aborted with:
>
> Out of memory: Kill process 27787 (BackupPC_dump) score 647 or sacrifice
> child
'defunct' processes normally have exited and cleaned up their
resources except that there is an entry left in the process table
until the parent process wait()s to collect the status. Are you sure
it wasn't some still-running process consuming the memory?
--
Les Mikesell
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