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sammy ominsky wrote:
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I have one server that is constantly getting overrun by zombies! Nagios alerts me that
** NAGIOS ALERT ** PROBLEM with Zombie Processes on Hardware *********** (***.***.***.***). Service is CRITICAL as of Sun Jan 3 15:17:10 UTC 2010. The additional information available is: PROCS CRITICAL: 23 processes with STATE = Z
ps shows me it's mostly one process this time, other times it's others
19279 ? Z 0:00 [playrecording.p] <defunct>
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Use pstree and check who the zombies parent is. If it is the same
process for almost all of them, this is likely a software bug in
playrecording.p (or whatever the parent is). If it is process ID 1,
then you have some other problem (probably in the kernel).<br>
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Shachar<br>
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Shachar Shemesh
Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.lingnu.com">http://www.lingnu.com</a>
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