> >This would be manageable in the short term by restarting the server >occasionally if it weren't for the second biggest problem: at least half >the time, if not more, defunct threads are left behind when you kill nsd. >This usually prevents it from starting back up properly. Aack! > >Any hints, ideas, etc, or even just confirmation of what's going on, would >be helpful. Heck, I'll take moral support at this point! :)
Janine, I would try using daemontools to start and restart AOLserver. This tool should correctly handle killing all children of the main process. I have one process I control with daemontools using fghack that allways creates a zombie process (portsentry), but killing and restarting cleans up this mess (and then re-creates a new zombie). My howto is at http://zmbh.com/ --Tom Jackson
