Check for "zombie" processes on the server.

We are seeing processes that are not closed correctly on Masters and
Medias that are creating these "zombies".  Do a "ps -ef" and grep for
"defunct".

The only way to clear these zombies is a reboot.  These zombie processes
will keep the memory allocated and it can't be used by other processes.


Bobby Williams
Senior Systems Engineer
GTSI Corp, State and Local, Southeast
4250-A Benton Drive
Chattanooga, Tennessee  37406
Phone: 423-624-2600
Pager: 423-819-3336
Fax: 423-629-9669

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Dave
Markham
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 6:16 AM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] status 89 out of the blue

Has anyone seens a status 89 unable to setup shared memoty all of a
sudden out of the blue when no changes have been made?

Im running netbackup 5.0mp3 master/media and then 2 extra media servers.

The 2 media servers are database servers also and have there own disk
storage. I am running an L700 with 5 tape drives LTO2 utilizxing SSO. 
The media server 2 ( the one in question now showing this error ) has
been working fine for 2 months. There are no other errors for clients or
the other media servers.

All of this is on solaris 9

I have the following tuneable paramets in /etc/system

set msgssys:msginfo_msgmap=512
set msgssys:msginfo_msgmax=8192
set msgssys:msginfo_msgmnb=65536
set msgssys:msginfo_msgssz=16
set msgssys:msginfo_msgtql=512
set msgssys:msginfo_msgseg=8192

set semsys:seminfo_semmap=64
set semsys:seminfo_semmni=1024
set semsys:seminfo_semmns=1024
set semsys:seminfo_semmnu=1024
set semsys:seminfo_semmsl=300
set semsys:seminfo_semopm=32
set semsys:seminfo_semume=64

*set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=16777216
*set shmsys:shminfo_shmin=1
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni=220
set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg=100



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