look for open descriptors with lsof. 2010/1/3 Shachar Shemesh <shac...@shemesh.biz>: > sammy ominsky wrote: > > 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> > > > Use pstree and check who the zombies parent is. If it is the same process > for almost all of them, this is likely a software bug in playrecording.p (or > whatever the parent is). If it is process ID 1, then you have some other > problem (probably in the kernel). > > Shachar > > -- > Shachar Shemesh > Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd. > http://www.lingnu.com > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > >
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