My zombie amount is growing !

I'll test again and give more info


On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Martin Pala <[email protected]> wrote:

> One "check program| = one zombie, which will be reaped on next check cycle
> ... but during the new cycle new program is started, which will turn into
> zombie when it finished (usually quickly), and stays as zombie until next
> cycle. The number of zombies should be thus stable (equal to number of
> "check program" statements).
>
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> On Apr 30, 2013, at 9:30 PM, sven falempin <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Martin Pala <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> the temporary zombie is "feature" - explained in monit manual (
>> http://www.mmonit.com/monit/documentation/monit.html#program_status_testing
>> ):
>> --8<--
>> The asynchronous nature of the program check allows for non-blocking
>> behavior in the current Monit design, but it comes with a side-effect: when
>> the program has finished executing and is waiting for Monit to collect the
>> result, it becomes a so-called "zombie" process. A zombie process does not
>> consume any system resources (only the PID remains in use) and it is under
>> Monit's control; The zombie process is removed from the system as soon as
>> Monit collects the exit status. This means that every "check program" will
>> be associated with either a running process or a temporary zombie. This
>> unwanted zombie side-effect will be removed in a later release of Monit.
>> --8<--
>>
>> We'll fix this with the refactoring of test scheduler.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Martin
>>
>>
>>
> is that possible that the zombie are'nt disappearing ?
>
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>>  On Apr 30, 2013, at 6:38 PM, sven falempin <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
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>> > HEllo,
>> >
>> > My monit daemon is creating zombie, is there a way to find the
>> responsible check script ?
>> >
>> > machine:~/# monit -V
>> > This is Monit version 5.5
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>> > cheers :-)
>> >
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