I'm using a parallel routine for running rsyncs I have used many times
before, however, when running it today for the first time on a new system
all runs hang with all the children processes in a zombie state. This is
on CentOS 7.9.
Any clues as to why this would be happening?
[root@ceph-admin-prod1 sync_hcpdb]# ps -ef |grep rsync
root 196618 196498 33 10:42 pts/56 00:03:49 perl
/usr/local/bin/parallel --jobs 40 --resume --joblog
/ceph/hcpdb/sync_hcpdb/work/parallel.joblog --retries 3 --progress
/ceph/hcpdb/sync_hcpdb/99rsync_job.sh {}
root 205121 196618 0 10:46 pts/56 00:00:00 [99rsync_job.sh] <defunct>
root 205122 196618 0 10:46 pts/56 00:00:00 [99rsync_job.sh] <defunct>
root 205132 196618 0 10:46 pts/56 00:00:00 [99rsync_job.sh] <defunct>
root 205142 196618 0 10:46 pts/56 00:00:00 [99rsync_job.sh] <defunct>
root 205146 196618 0 10:46 pts/56 00:00:00 [99rsync_job.sh] <defunct>
root 205151 196618 0 10:46 pts/56 00:00:00 [99rsync_job.sh] <defunct>
root 205164 196618 0 10:46 pts/56 00:00:00 [99rsync_job.sh] <defunct>
root 205177 196618 0 10:46 pts/56 00:00:00 [99rsync_job.sh] <defunct>
root 205216 196618 0 10:46 pts/56 00:00:00 [99rsync_job.sh] <defunct>
root 205290 196618 0 10:46 pts/56 00:00:00 [99rsync_job.sh] <defunct>
root 205309 196618 0 10:46 pts/56 00:00:00 [99rsync_job.sh] <defunct>
root 205330 196618 0 10:46 pts/56 00:00:00 [99rsync_job.sh] <defunct>
root 205337 196618 0 10:46 pts/56 00:00:00 [99rsync_job.sh] <defunct>
root 205340 196618 0 10:46 pts/56 00:00:00 [99rsync_job.sh] <defunct>
root 205345 196618 0 10:46 pts/56 00:00:00 [99rsync_job.sh] <defunct>
root 205349 196618 0 10:46 pts/56 00:00:00 [99rsync_job.sh] <defunct>
root 205355 196618 0 10:46 pts/56 00:00:00 [99rsync_job.sh] <defunct>
root 205362 196618 0 10:46 pts/56 00:00:00 [99rsync_job.sh] <defunct>
root 205370 196618 0 10:46 pts/56 00:00:00 [99rsync_job.sh] <defunct>
root 205380 196618 0 10:46 pts/56 00:00:00 [99rsync_job.sh] <defunct>
root 205392 196618 0 10:46 pts/56 00:00:00 [99rsync_job.sh] <defunct>
root 205401 196618 0 10:46 pts/56 00:00:00 [99rsync_job.sh] <defunct>
root 205410 196618 0 10:46 pts/56 00:00:00 [99rsync_job.sh] <defunct>
root 205420 196618 0 10:46 pts/56 00:00:00 [99rsync_job.sh] <defunct>
root 220866 127054 0 10:53 pts/1 00:00:00 grep --color=auto rsync
[root@ceph-admin-prod1 sync_hcpdb]# /usr/local/bin/parallel --version
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