RE: {bb} runaway processes

[Rodney Caudle <rodney@On24.com>]

We are running Big Brother on Linux.  We also have this problem.  It appears
that the Windows NT machines may be keeping socket connections open to the
Big Brother server.  This eventually causes A LOT of bbd processes to remain
active, but not functioning on the BBDISPLAY server.  I noticed that for
Linux the -DZOMBIE has been removed in version 1.21 (release notes).  All of
these open processes eventually causes the BBDISPLAY to be unstable.  Once I
remove them and start BigBrother again everything is okay.  A daily restart
of BigBrother hardly seems appropriate to keep this going.  Are there any
other options?  

Here is more information:

Linux (Redhat 6.1) Kernel 2.2.12-20
BigBrother 1.3a (BBDISPLAY)

Client is on Windows NT, Linux, and Solaris.

-Rodney Caudle
ON24, Inc.

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> Seems to be my week for questions.
> Last Thursday I added bb-nt to my systems. They point to my same
BBDISPLAY.
> The next day I started noticing that on my BBDISPLAY machine that I was
> getting lots of bbd processes /bb13/bin/bbd. Stopping Big Brother doesn't
> get rid of them it actually requires a kill of the PID for each process
> individually. I turned BB off on the BBDISPLAY over the weekend and turned
> it back on at 8am this morning, at this time I have 42 bbd processes
> running.
> I can not seem to trace the cause of this.
> Have any of you seen this occur and know where I can look to resolve it?

What OS are you running on the BBDISPLAY?  I've seen this behaviour on
FreeBSD and old suns (where you need to define -DZOMBIE in the Makefile).
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