Thanks to everyone that responded including: Sanjiv K. Bhatia Jesse Carroll Darren Dunham Christophe Dupre Christophe Dupre David Evans Amit Kumar Russell Niesz John Riddoch Jacob Rieper Deborah Santomauro Bill Voight Thanks to Jesse Carroll for the information about where to find the Sys Admin Guide for a Netra X1. Russell Neisz supplied information about how to determine my process limits. David Evans suggested checking the site of the FlexLM provider (www.globetrotter.com) as he had this problem on an MS system several years ago. The Netra X1 Sys Admin Guide is at "sunsolve.sun.com" under the Telco" heading (obvious, right!). No one came up with a way to delete the defunct processes other than rebooting the machine. A lot of people suggested that I go in and kill the parent process of the defunct processes and that should clean them up but the parent process no longer exists. I had a bunch of defunct processes with PPIDs that no longer exist. No one had a good explanation of how this could happen. Late yesterday the system stopped responding to all input and would not even respond to a stop-a sequence so I had to reboot it by turning the power off. That obviously cleaned up the defunct processes but not the way I had in mind. We are running an application that uses the FlexLM license manager to run their own license daemon and they provided a utility to reset the license daemon that would go out and just kill their daemon and then rely on lmgrd to restart it (which it did). I think this is what was causing the defunct processes so I rewrote the script to use "lmdown" and "lmreread" to shut down and restart their license daemon. I have not seen any defunct processes since. _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Tue Jan 8 11:22:10 2002
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