RE: [U2] Phantom creating Zombies

2007-11-05 Thread David Jordan
Hi David Just a thought, but you could change your approach to this and use some newer technologies such as MQ or web services using connection pooling. These are designed to handle issues like you have mentioned better than the phantom process. Regards David Jordan Managing Consultant [EMAIL

RE: [U2] Phantom creating Zombies

2007-11-05 Thread Gunasegeran Pasupathy
Dear David, Try setting the NOTIFY ON in the login proc. Whats happening is that, when the phantom is done, its needs to tell someone, until thats is done the zombie process will there. Regards, Guna -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: [U2] Phantom creating Zombies

2007-11-05 Thread john reid
We had the same problem with a scheduling module. We found that if the module CHAINed itself after a given period of time (like an hour) the zombies went south, following the deceased parent. On 11/5/07, Gunasegeran Pasupathy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear David, Try setting the NOTIFY ON in

RE: [U2] Phantom creating Zombies

2007-11-05 Thread Kevin Sproule
David, Easy fix: EXECUTE JOBS CAPTURING JUNK Put this in your code prior to the PHANTOM launching code. It will reap any dead child processes (zombies), that may be hanging around. Kevin M. Sproule Sr. Technical Consultant AFS Technologies, Inc. 2141 E. Highland Ave, Ste. 100 Phoenix,

RE: [U2] Phantom creating Zombies

2007-11-05 Thread John Jenkins
David NOTIFY ON and also - as this is a scheduler PHANTOM - change any long SLEEP into smaller chunks of SLEEPS - e.g. Instead of SLEEP 36000 try FOR delay = 1 to 100; SLEEO 360; NEXT delay There were two issues there (from my memory) - the first was that a BREAK on a foreground process that