Zombie process - DA?

[thoroughfare]

Hi,

Occasionally when I run top it shows the line:

25647 root 8 0 0 0 0 Z 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 service <defunct>

Is that a part of DA? Any know what it belongs to?

Thanks,
Matt :)

[DirectAdmin Support]

Service is the program used to restart services... ie:

serivce httpd restart

It's possible that DA isn't picking up the quit service program, but I'd have to double check that in the code. Try restarting DA to get rid of the zombie. If it never picked it up, then you'd have many, many zombies on your server, so it may be related to the service it's restarting/reloading/stopping or starting.

John

[thoroughfare]

Hi,

Restarting DA had no effect. 'service' brings up a file/command not found message... I don't think the paths are set up for it..?

Thanks,
Matt :)

[DirectAdmin Support]

Not sure. It's in /sbin/service... redhat only.

John

[thoroughfare]

Thanks :)

Matt

[thoroughfare]

Well, I ran 'export PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin', and service worked fine. I've still got the zombie process though and I can't kill it without rebooting.

Matt

[DirectAdmin Support]

if you hit "c" in top.. it should give you the command line that was provided (i think, unless the dead process lost all it's info) .. if we can figure out what it's used for, it may help in finding the cause.

John

[thoroughfare]

Sorry, it still just shows:

7336 root 8 0 0 0 0 Z 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 service <defunct>

'c' works for all the other processes, but not this one. Hmmm.

Matt

[DirectAdmin Support]

If DA did start it up, then there might be something in the /var/log/directadmin/errortaskq.log .. But.. if the process never returned, then dataskq would still be waiting for it to finish, so might not be the dataskq, not too sure.

John

[thoroughfare]

Hi,

I've emailed you my log :)

Thanks!
Matt