When I ps -ef I see about 3 or 4 <DEFUNCT> things - what are these, and what causes them? Are they a concern? How can I fix them?
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Michael (4 Replies)
how can i assure that daemon process which is being run as init child,can be removed immediately from system when it goes defunct or to avoid daemon process becoming defunt? (5 Replies)
Hey guys/gals. I am new to the site and fairly new to Unix/Linux. I have a master netbackup server (solaris) that I get pinged on occasionally regarding defunct processes. (Usually over 50 or so of them.) I know what a defunct process is, but what is it a product of? Just plain sloppy code? (From... (1 Reply)
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Can any one help me to get rid of defunct process on UNIX IBM AIX box. These processes started when the system was rebooted almost after 1 1/2 years. Once one defunct process is created then all the user ids get infected and in turn creates numerous defunct processes. We have tried... (6 Replies)
Hi All,
Sorry to bother you all if my query is silly. Can you please clarify my doubts on defunct processes.
Actually coming to the scenario, i have a server which is under cluster environment. Server B is having problems with the defunct process. There was a cron scheduled on Server B which... (0 Replies)
Dear Sir / Madam,
We have two socket programs which are running in background. These two socket programs are creating defunct processes in HP-UX which were not happening in Compaq True64 UNIX. What is the root cause of these defunct processes and how can we correct it?
Your suggestion will be... (3 Replies)
HiI had a tool fail recently, on analysis I found it was cleaning up orphaned directories that had been created by specific processes that had died for some reason, thus failing to clean up after themselves.The directories were of the form /dir.pid. The tool would look to see if any instances of... (2 Replies)
How to find out and clear the 'defunct' processes at OS and DB level ..?? (6 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT HPUX
sysdef
sysdef(1M)sysdef(1M)NAME
sysdef - display system definition
SYNOPSIS
[kernel [master]]
DESCRIPTION
Note: will not be supported in future releases of HP-UX (refer to section below). So users are advised to use the kctune(1M) utility which
provides additional information on kernel tunable parameters.
The command analyzes the currently running system and reports on its tunable configuration parameters. kernel and master are not used, but
can be specified for standards compliance.
For each configuration parameter, the following information is printed:
The name and description of the parameter.
The current value of the parameter.
The value of the parameter at boot time, if different from the
current value.
The minimum allowed value of the parameter, if any.
The maximum allowed value of the parameter, if any.
Where appropriate, the units by which the parameter is measured.
Flags that further describe the parameter. The following flag
is defined:
Parameter can be modified without rebooting.
WARNINGS
Users of must not rely on the exact field widths and spacing of its output, as these will vary depending on the system, the release of HP-
UX, and the data to be displayed.
is provided for compatibility purposes only and is no longer maintained since being marked for obsolescence in a future HP-UX release. The
output from is known to be incorrect when reporting values for some tunable parameters such as and
SEE ALSO kctune(1M).
TO BE OBSOLETED sysdef(1M)