All processes show <defunct>

From: Matthias Reichling <rzuw007_at_rz.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 16:57:35 +0100 (MET)

Hi all,

since the upgrade of a system to Digital UNIX V4.0F with patch kit
duv40fas0002-19991116 I observed the following:

Sometimes the machine is very slow and the output of ps -ef looks like


UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
root 0 0 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 1 0 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 3 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 25 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 136 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 140 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 334 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 342 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 347 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 350 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 352 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 435 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 437 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 478 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 487 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 488 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 489 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 491 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 534 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 535 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 552 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 562 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 596 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 610 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 647 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 661 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 679 661 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 680 661 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 702 680 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 735 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 736 562 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 745 702 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 746 702 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 747 702 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 748 702 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 749 746 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 852 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 853 852 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 858 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 859 858 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 864 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 865 864 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 875 864 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 876 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 877 876 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 879 876 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 884 876 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 909 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 1056 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 1058 1056 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 1065 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 1066 1065 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 2309 562 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 678 1 0.0 - console 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 750 747 0.0 - ttyp1 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 751 748 0.0 - ttyp2 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 767 1 0.0 - ttyp2 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 780 767 0.0 - ttyp2 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 27236 751 0.0 - ttyp2 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 2307 2309 0.0 - ttyp3 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 12997 2307 0.0 - ttyp3 0:00.00 <defunct>
root 27150 12997 0.0 - ttyp3 0:00.00 <defunct>


After a reboot all is o.k. for some days, but then the machine hangs
again.

Any ideas ?


Best regards,

Matthias Reichling
Univ. of Wuerzburg
reichling_at_rz.uni-wuerzburg.de
Received on Mon Jan 03 2000 - 15:58:24 NZDT

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