Hi all, 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> 19283 ? Z 0:00 [playrecording.p] <defunct> 19293 ? Z 0:00 [playrecording.p] <defunct> 19295 ? Z 0:00 [playrecording.p] <defunct> 19648 ? Z 0:00 [playrecording.p] <defunct> 19767 ? Z 0:00 [playrecording.p] <defunct> 19778 ? Z 0:00 [playrecording.p] <defunct> 19779 ? Z 0:00 [playrecording.p] <defunct> 19782 ? Z 0:00 [playrecording.p] <defunct> 19786 ? Z 0:00 [playrecording.p] <defunct> 19851 ? Z 0:00 [playrecording.p] <defunct> 19857 ? Z 0:00 [playrecording.p] <defunct> 19859 ? Z 0:00 [playrecording.p] <defunct> 19861 ? Z 0:00 [playrecording.p] <defunct> 19938 ? Z 0:00 [playrecording.p] <defunct> 19940 ? Z 0:00 [playrecording.p] <defunct> 19944 ? Z 0:00 [playrecording.p] <defunct> 20191 ? Z 0:00 [callingcard.php] <defunct> 20195 ? Z 0:00 [playrecording.p] <defunct> 20291 ? Z 0:00 [playrecording.p] <defunct> 20302 ? Z 0:00 [playrecording.p] <defunct> 20304 ? Z 0:00 [playrecording.p] <defunct> 20315 ? Z 0:00 [playrecording.p] <defunct> 20433 ? Z 0:00 [playrecording.p] <defunct> 20444 ? Z 0:00 [playrecording.p] <defunct> Thoughts? Thanks! --sambo _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
