On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Brad Nicholes wrote:
> I am seeing the same thing. It goes away if I use the subprocess module.
> There must be some problem in the way that popen2 is invoked that is leaving
> a defunct process.
This fixes the problem:
diff -u tcpconn.py tcpconn.py.new
--- tcpconn.py 2008-01-18 10:34:05.000000000 -0800
+++ tcpconn.py.new 2008-01-18 10:33:58.000000000 -0800
@@ -212,6 +212,7 @@
#Call the netstat utility and split the output into separate lines
netstat_output=popen2.popen2(["netstat", '-t', '-a'],
mode='r')[0].read()
lines = netstat_output.splitlines()
+ os.wait()
#Iterate through the netstat output looking for the 'tcp' keyword
in the tcp_at
# position and the state information in the tcp_state_at position.
Count each
Matthias
>
> Brad
>
> >>> On 1/17/2008 at 7:37 PM, in message
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Bernard Li"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi Brad:
> >
> > I'm not sure if my patch caused this, or this is a standard behaviour
> > of tcpconn:
> >
> > 17825 ? Ssl 0:00 /usr/sbin/gmond
> > 17864 ? Z 0:00 \_ [netstat] <defunct>
> >
> > Can you check whether you have the same thing when you startup your gmond?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Bernard
> >
> > On 1/16/08, Brad Nicholes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> >>> On 1/16/2008 at 11:44 AM, in message
> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Bernard Li"
> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> > Hi Brad:
> >> >
> >> > On 1/15/08, Brad Nicholes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> works for me too. Check it in :)
> >> >
> >> > Done -- BTW, when I try to run the script in the command prompt (i.e.
> >> > python tcpconn.py), it doesn't exit even though I hit ctrl-c -- bug or
> >> > feature?
> >> >
> >>
> >> Not sure why it wouldn't exit on ctrl-c but the test portion of the script
> >> by
> > design, goes into an infinite loop. I guess the while loop could check for
> > an exit command, but then it is only for testing purposes anyway so
> > whatever
> > the mechanism is to kill the script is probably OK.
> >>
> >> Brad
> >>
> >>
>
>
>
>
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