[Orca-users] Re: <defunct> orca processes ....

[Blair Zajac]

"Camron W. Fox" wrote:
> 
> Alle,
> 
>         We have been running orca in daemon mode for the last 48 hours with logging
> turned on because it kept dying mysteriously and we could not find the
> cause. Now orca is not dying but it has created several (1018 at last count)
> <defunct> processes, which now causes it to fail because there are too many
> open files.
>         Has anyone had experience with this? I looked at the archive and found the
> issue about the "/usr/bin/bzip2" path, but that doesn't apply in our case.

Why doesn't it apply?  Which compression program are you using?

How high have you set the number of open file descriptors for the
Orca process?

Best,
Blair

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