[Orca-users] Re: Orca defunct processes

MinhAnh2 atrinh at ureach.com
Thu Feb 21 12:11:56 PST 2002


--- In orca-users at y..., Blair Zajac <blair at o...> wrote:
> Alvin Anh Trinh wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Blair,
> > 
> > I used Orca version 0.27b2 and it's great.
> > I'm getting a lot of defunct processes, do
> > you have a work around?  When orca is
> > running it take a lot of CPU, do you have
> > any recommend?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance,
> > 
> > Alvin
> 
> Hi Alvin,
> 
> Can you find out which processes are defunct?  Maybe do a ps -ef
> and then do another one a while later and match up process IDs.
> 
> Which version of Perl are you using?
> 
> Also, if you're using a lot of CPU, make sure you don't use the
> -o option, otherwise Orca spends a lot of time at start up munching
> the CPU.
> 
> Best,
> Blair

Hi Blair,

It was orca process that generated defunct processes.  I figured it
out  why, because my bunzip2 is not in /usr/bin.  I run orca as a
daemon, I used -d option.

Thanks for you help.

Alvin
> 
> -- 
> Blair Zajac <blair at o...>
> Web and OS performance plots - http://www.orcaware.com/orca/



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