jagan, the defunct is not getting killed... i stays there no matter how many
times
i try to kill it
> ----------
> From: JAGAN RAO[SMTP:jaganr_at_dubal.co.ae]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 4:46 PM
> To: 'Rahul'
> Cc: 'oracledba_at_quickdoc.co.uk'
> Subject: RE: <defunct> process in AIX
>
> <<File: defunct1.txt>>
> Killing the defunct process should be ok. No need to recreate the port.
>
> Attached is the sample script. Go through and customize for your needs.
>
> <<defunct1.txt>>
> applmgr is a username whose defunct processes are getting killed. You need
> to put your user name there in the grep statement. It is recommended to
> first comment the kill statement and test the script and then uncomment
> the
> kill statement.
>
> Do not run this script as root and without ps -ef | grep <username>
> filter.
> If you do so, you will be killing the defunct processes of root and that
> could cause system crash, definitely so if you are using hacmp [clustering
> feature in aix].
>
> It will be good idea to find out the reason for the hanging situation. Are
> you proper using proper handshaking? You can use line analyzers to solve
> these kind of issues. Now a days you can get them quite cheap or probably
> down load the trial versions from the web.
>
> Long back I have used a similar thing of interfacing our hp server to a
> telephone exchange to automatically capture the information regarding
> telephone calls
> and also to update the oracle database [Pro*C]. Do not remember to have
> faced these kind of hung issues. It will be good idea to dig into the C
> code.
>
> Warm Regards,
> Jagan rao.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rahul [SMTP:rahul_at_ratelindo.co.id]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 1:28 PM
> To: 'Oracle List I'; 'Oracle List II'
> Subject: <defunct> process in AIX
>
> List,
> we are running oracle 816 on AIX H70, we use the tty port to
> communicate
> with a telephone switch, program written in 'C' reads from Oracle
> and
> writes the command to the '/dev/tty1' .
>
> the problem is that sometimes the port hangs and we find a zombie
> <defuct>
> process hanging in memory...... it does not allow to drop and
> recreate the
> port also..
> says... "specified device is busy..."
>
> is there any way to clear the <defunct> process ? and/or
> drop/recreate the
> TTY port ??
>
> previously we used to re-boot the machine, but this is not an option
> now..
>
> Regards
>
> Rahul
>
>
>
>
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