[ARGUS] undesirable ra behaviour

[Bill Guyton]

Generally when you see zombies, it's due to the parent not properly reaping
the children.  Is PID 295 below the perl script, or is in the ra program?

Bill Guyton


On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 09:06:18PM -0700, Peter Van Epp wrote:
> 	I haven't gotten further than "hmmm, thats undesirable, I should do 
> something about that", but ra appears to be spawning zombies on FreeBSD. This
> is a perl script running ra against a month's worth of archive files one at a
> time. ra appears to be creating a zombie on every invocation. They go away 
> when the script ends but the possibility of filling the process table 
> presumably exists.
> 
> USER     PID  PPID  PGID   SESS JOBC STAT  TT       TIME COMMAND
> 
> vanepp   309   295   295 c2d50880    0 Z     ??    0:00.00  (ra)
> vanepp   313   295   295 c2d50880    0 Z     ??    0:00.00  (ra)
> vanepp   317   295   295 c2d50880    0 Z     ??    0:00.00  (ra)
> vanepp   321   295   295 c2d50880    0 Z     ??    0:00.00  (ra)
> vanepp   325   295   295 c2d50880    0 Z     ??    0:00.00  (ra)
> vanepp   332   295   295 c2d50880    0 Z     ??    0:00.00  (ra)
> vanepp   336   295   295 c2d50880    0 Z     ??    0:00.00  (ra)
> vanepp   340   295   295 c2d50880    0 Z     ??    0:00.00  (ra)
> vanepp   344   295   295 c2d50880    0 Z     ??    0:00.00  (ra)
> vanepp   348   295   295 c2d50880    0 Z     ??    0:00.00  (ra)
> vanepp   355   295   295 c2d50880    0 Z     ??    0:00.00  (ra)
> vanepp   359   295   295 c2d50880    0 Z     ??    0:00.00  (ra)
> vanepp   363   295   295 c2d50880    0 Z     ??    0:00.00  (ra)
> vanepp   367   295   295 c2d50880    0 Z     ??    0:00.00  (ra)
> vanepp   374   295   295 c2d50880    0 Z     ??    0:00.00  (ra)
> vanepp   378   295   295 c2d50880    0 Z     ??    0:00.00  (ra)
> vanepp   382   295   295 c2d50880    0 Z     ??    0:00.00  (ra)
> vanepp   389   295   295 c2d50880    0 Z     ??    0:00.00  (ra)
> vanepp   393   295   295 c2d50880    0 Z     ??    0:00.00  (ra)
> vanepp   397   295   295 c2d50880    0 Z     ??    0:00.00  (ra)
> vanepp   404   295   295 c2d50880    0 Z     ??    0:00.00  (ra)
> vanepp   408   295   295 c2d50880    0 Z     ??    0:00.00  (ra)
> vanepp   414   295   295 c2d50880    0 Z     ??    0:00.00  (ra)
> vanepp   421   295   295 c2d50880    0 Z     ??    0:00.00  (ra)
> vanepp   425   295   295 c2d50880    0 Z     ??    0:00.00  (ra)
> vanepp   429   295   295 c2d50880    0 Z     ??    0:00.00  (ra)
> vanepp   433   295   295 c2d50880    0 Z     ??    0:00.00  (ra)
> vanepp   437   295   295 c2d50880    0 Z     ??    0:00.00  (ra)
> vanepp   447   295   295 c2d50880    0 Z     ??    0:00.00  (ra)
> vanepp   451   295   295 c2d50880    0 Z     ??    0:00.00  (ra)
> vanepp   455   295   295 c2d50880    0 Z     ??    0:00.00  (ra)
> vanepp   459   295   295 c2d50880    0 Z     ??    0:00.00  (ra)
> vanepp   466   295   295 c2d50880    0 Z     ??    0:00.00  (ra)
> vanepp   470   295   295 c2d50880    0 Z     ??    0:00.00  (ra)
> vanepp   474   295   295 c2d50880    0 Z     ??    0:00.00  (ra)
> vanepp   481   295   295 c2d50880    0 Z     ??    0:00.00  (ra)
> vanepp   485   295   295 c2d50880    0 Z     ??    0:00.00  (ra)
> vanepp   489   295   295 c2d50880    0 Z     ??    0:00.00  (ra)
> vanepp   496   295   295 c2d50880    0 Z     ??    0:00.00  (ra)
> vanepp   500   295   295 c2d50880    0 Z     ??    0:00.00  (ra)
> vanepp   504   295   295 c2d50880    0 Z     ??    0:00.00  (ra)
> vanepp   511   295   295 c2d50880    0 Z     ??    0:00.00  (ra)
> ...
> 
> Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support 
> Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada