Re: {bb} RE: bb1.9i spwan lots of bb processes

[Philip Clark <bblist@cannae.uklinux.net>]

On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 18:56, Chris Naude wrote:
> I had a similar problem to this on a Solaris box. You can try using the 
> -DZOMBIE compile flag. Have a look at the src/Makefile for the 
> instructions on using the flag.
> 
> On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Bosco Tsang wrote:
> 
> > Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:02:12 -0400
> > From: Bosco Tsang <maillist@bosco.cs.uoguelph.ca>
> > Reply-To: bb@bb4.com
> > To: bb@bb4.com
> > Subject: {bb} RE: bb1.9i spwan lots of bb processes
> > 
> > Recently upgraded to bb1.9i, there is some strange thing happen to the BB
> > server. Seems like everything it run, it will spwan off 5 more process as
> > below,
> >
> >
> >
> > bb     32501 17819  0 12:16 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/bb1.9i-btf/bin/bbd
> >
> >
> >
> > and the process count increase, which can go up to higher than 1,000 in a
> > day or so. Have to restart BB in order to get it back to normal. I've tried
> > reading thru the documentation, and have added -DZOMBIE which seems helps in
> > stopping new process from creating, but it also stop any monitoring
> > including conn test and incoming messages. Any idea why? And how can I fix
> > it? My current workaround is still restart BB daily but this surely is not a
> > solution to the problem.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Bosco

It certainly sounds like the zombie problem, but you should post
the operating system (with version number) that you are using.
If the ZOMBIE compile flag is required, it is likely that someone
else will have had the same problem before and can confirm that.

Next, assuming that this is the answer, you will need to work out
why BB in not updating when you do compile with the ZOMBIE flag.
I would assume, from your post, that the (expected) BB processes 
still run, but the status log files are not updated. If so, is
there any interesting output in the BBOUT file? If there are
no error messages, you might need to enable debugging output
in bbd.c. That will dump copious information on BBOUT, however,
so don't run it for too long.

Cheers, Phil.



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