if the phantom is still running, I've found that any phantoms spawned by that phantom will not fully die until the parent phantom process is no longer.
if the parent phantom is a loop, which in it's loop spawns off the other phantoms, instead of repeating the loop, have it chain back to itself CHAIN "PHANTOM LOOPING-PHANTOM" That will end the original process, and any child processed spawned will return their process id's back to the system, otherwise you will eventually run into the unix problem of "new available processes", and the system will start to drrrraaaaaagggggggggg. George >-----Original Message----- >From: Nick Cipollina [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2004 3:27 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [U2] [UV] Phantom Problem > > >We are having a problem with our phantom processes. We have a job that >runs as a phantom that spawns many phantom processes. When these many >phantom processes die, they are leaving behind a <defunct> process. >This is cause when the phantom process attempts to notify the process >that started it that they are complete. Since they were started by a >phantom, there is no process to notify. I've run into this before, but >I don't' remember how we resolved it. I got my solution from this user >list, and I'm hoping that someone can refresh my memory. Thanks in >advance. > > > >Nick Cipollina > > > >Pick Programmer > >ACS - Heritage Information Systems, Inc. > >2810 North Parham Road, Suite 210 > >Richmond, VA 23294 > >(804)644-8707 x 314 > >[demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/jpeg which >had a name of image001.jpg] > >[demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/gif which >had a name of image002.gif] >------- >u2-users mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/