Bobby Williams wrote:

> 
>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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No defunct processes, although a log of oracle processes. I wonder if 
some of them are dead and not releasing memory.

Dave