Re: too many DEFUNCT processes

2002-10-11 Thread Bruno Negrao
Hi Gordon and all folks, Some time ago you gave me this answer (bellow) about the occurence of too many defunct processes in my system. I've been testing what you suggested, issue a kill -CONT at the PPID and it is working fine: the PPID exits and the defunct process is finally banished

Re: too many DEFUNCT processes

2002-10-03 Thread Robert Monical
May not help. The common cause of a stopped process is a nondaemonised process in the background of an interactive job control shell. Such jobs are often set up by the shell to stop (via SIGTSTP) if they produce output to avoid cluttering things, or if they try to read from the terminal.

Re: too many DEFUNCT processes

2002-10-01 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 06:24, Bruno Negrao wrote: Actually, all those defunct processes are remaining from shell scripts ran from CRON. .. Let's supose that my programs are ok - they're really not interactive. What could cause such a problem?(the arising of so many defunct processes) Crond

Re: too many DEFUNCT processes

2002-10-01 Thread Bruno Negrao
Yes!! I upgraded glibc recently!! :-( and now? - Original Message - From: Gordon Messmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 4:46 PM Subject: Re: too many DEFUNCT processes On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 06:24, Bruno Negrao wrote: Actually, all those

Re: too many DEFUNCT processes

2002-10-01 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 14:55, Bruno Negrao wrote: Yes!! I upgraded glibc recently!! :-( and now? Restart crond: /etc/init.d/crond restart If that doesn't work, schedule a time to reboot. Be at the console when you do so. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL

Re: too many DEFUNCT processes

2002-09-30 Thread Bruno Negrao
processes - all them continue to have their original parents who, in turn, are children of the CRON process. Thank for any help, bruno. - Original Message - From: Cameron Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 1:27 AM Subject: Re: too many DEFUNCT

Re: too many DEFUNCT processes

2002-09-28 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 21:27, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 14:15 27 Sep 2002, Gordon Messmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | If the parent is the init process (I've seen it happen once, and was | probably related to glibc upgrade), you'll have to sync and power off to | reboot. It's clearly not

too many DEFUNCT processes

2002-09-27 Thread Bruno Negrao
Hi all, I have a RedHat 6.2 and it isn't working fine. Look at how many defunct processes are hanging around: [root]# ps -ef|grep defunct vpopmail 2048 2047 0 Sep04 ?00:00:00 [eliminate-dups defunct] vpopmail 28983 28980 0 Sep10 ?00:00:00 [eliminate-dups defunct] vpopmail

Re: too many DEFUNCT processes

2002-09-27 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 13:05, Bruno Negrao wrote: I have a RedHat 6.2 and it isn't working fine. Look at how many defunct processes are hanging around: ... Does somenone could explain why is it happening? And the worst is that the parent processes of all this defunct childs still remain in

Re: too many DEFUNCT processes

2002-09-27 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 14:15 27 Sep 2002, Gordon Messmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 13:05, Bruno Negrao wrote: | I have a RedHat 6.2 and it isn't working fine. Look at how many defunct | processes are hanging around: | ... | Does somenone could explain why is it happening? | And the worst