whats the last line you see in your puppet logfiles? I would guess its an exec or similar....
Ohad On 12/22/08, Paul Johnson <gentoo.ser...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a strange problem with running puppet as a daemon. I set it up in > config to wake up every 15 min and looks like it every time spawns httpd > process that becomes zombie, so after some time I see a long list of > zombies, like this: > > root 12427 0.1 0.9 39624 37408 ? Ss Dec20 4:12 /usr/bin/ruby > /usr/sbin/puppetd > . > . > . > root 23654 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 15:14 0:00 \_ [httpd] > <defunct> > root 30482 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 15:29 0:00 \_ [httpd] > <defunct> > root 5389 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 15:44 0:00 \_ [httpd] > <defunct> > root 12636 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 15:59 0:00 \_ [httpd] > <defunct> > root 21618 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 16:15 0:00 \_ [httpd] > <defunct> > root 28044 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 16:30 0:00 \_ [httpd] > <defunct> > root 2363 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 16:45 0:00 \_ [httpd] > <defunct> > root 9547 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 17:00 0:00 \_ [httpd] > <defunct> > root 17770 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 17:15 0:00 \_ [httpd] > <defunct> > root 24466 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 17:30 0:00 \_ [httpd] > <defunct> > root 31275 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 17:46 0:00 \_ [httpd] > <defunct> > root 6199 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 18:01 0:00 \_ [httpd] > <defunct> > root 14349 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 18:16 0:00 \_ [httpd] > <defunct> > root 21148 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 18:31 0:00 \_ [httpd] > <defunct> > > When I kill puppetd all zombies die as well. I set it on about 60 servers, > and see the same picture on all of them :( > I don't have any idea about why this happen, does someone have any idea? > > Thanks in advance > -- > Paul Johnson > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
