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Thanks. Some more notes:
The number of zombies at start up (4)
correlates
with the number of results returned
immediately
(4). All results use the "shell" command
(after a
-> ).
Running from the command line makes no
difference, and neither does removing the -b option.
No errors are logged in the logs
(/var/log/pcp/pmie/host/pmie.log).
All results run the same shell script,
which
completes and which does not appear to be
the
zombie process (different pid).
The original script ran /bin/ksh using the
magic
number '#!' ; switching to bash didn't make
any
difference, nor did removing the magic
comment
entirely.
Leaving the system running overnight resulted
in
350+ zombies. Doing a pkill pmie killed
all
processes and took the zombies away
instantly.
The shell script writes a formatted string to
a
pipe - in order to send a passive check to Nagios
(formerly Netsaint).
David Douthitt
CUNA & Affiliates
UNIX
Systems Administrator
LPI Level 1, Linux+
ddouthitt@xxxxxxxxx
>>> Mark Goodwin <markgw@xxxxxxx>
12/18/02 7:50PM >>>
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, David Douthitt
wrote:
> pmie (used with pmie_check) is generating a lot of
zombies.
...
Thanks David, I've posted an (SGI internal) bug about
this. In
the mean time, if anyone has a fix please send it to the
list.
Thanks
-- Mark
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