Thanks gang for your help. We'll try out some of these next week. If we have success, I'll share it with you.
...ds > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barry Rogen > Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 3:59 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [U2] Phantom job started from another phantom job > > It may sound like a bizarre formula but we are able to > control this scenario. We have a background process that runs > 24x7. It checks for tasks to do, then goes to sleep, wakes up > and checks, etc. If there is some task that needs doing, the > phantom process, starts another phantom process and that > phantom process starts the actual process that does the work. > > So phantom watchdog starts a phantom ph.start. > ph.start's only task is to start phantom.to.do.actual.work. > > This method seems to dramatically keep defuct and zombie > processes to a substantial minimum. > > > > Barry Rogen > PNY Technologies, Inc. > Senior Programmer/Analyst > (973) 515 - 9700 ext 5327 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ----------------------------------------------------- > Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious > triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with > those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because > they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory > nor defeat. t. roosevelt > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Eastwood > Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 2:39 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [U2] Phantom job started from another phantom job > > In the main phantom (one spawning the other phantoms), try executing > "JOBS" every time it wakes up. > > Mark > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott, Dave > Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 10:36 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [U2] Phantom job started from another phantom job > > We tried this and it didn't solve the problem. > > Thanks for the suggestion. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of roy > > Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 11:58 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: RE: [U2] Phantom job started from another phantom job > > > > Try executing the VOC item NOTIFY ON see help files > > > > This finishes the phantom job and delete the process. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott, Dave > > Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 10:56 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [U2] Phantom job started from another phantom job > > > > A colleague of mine ask me to post this on his behalf. > > > > I have a Phantom job that runs continuously. The job performs > > a select, executes some processing on the records returned > > from the select, and then goes to sleep for a few minutes. > > After sleeping, the process repeats itself. > > I > > recently added an additional step after the processing. This > > step starts another Phantom process which launches a program > > that does a select and processes the results of the select > > and then stops (using CHAIN "OFF"). > > > > The problem is that our system admins have noticed that the > > "child" Phantom processes launched by the parent Phantom > > process go into a state of "defunct" > > from a Unix process perspective. > > > > $ ps -ef | grep defunct > > fhooven 23180 986 18 16:33:12 ? 0:00 <defunct> > > dscott 23302 23199 1 16:33:32 pts/tW 0:00 grep defunct > > > > The child Phantom process runs successfully and the "defunct" > > process eventually goes away. > > > > Any idea what causes this? > > > > System is Universe 10.0 running on HPUX B.11.11 A > > > > Thanks for you help. > > > > ...Frank Hooven > > ------- > > u2-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ > > ------- > > u2-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
