RE: [cobalt-users] 16622, zombies and sleeping processes

[wcstaff <wcstaff@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> FantasticMoms.com
> Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 6:40 PM
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> Subject: [cobalt-users] 16622, zombies and sleeping processes
> 
> Well, I found out why my memory s gradually disappearing.  
> It's because of
> the dreaded 16622 patch on my RaQ4.
> 
> Some questions, if I may....
> 
> 1. Has a cured patch been issued for this yet?
> 
> 2. Will a reload of httpd every 30 mins in my cron cure the 
> problem for the
> tme being (seems to get rid of the zombies found by ps ax
> 
> 3. Does 16622 also generate sleeping processes?  I have 79 
> processes, 75 of
> which are sleeping. A lot of them a caspeng, admeng, and admd
> 
> Even with the 30 minute httpd reload, my server states 52% of 
> memory used
> right after a reboot, whereas it used to start at about 7%, 
> and all that has
> been added is these darned patches.
> 
Mine shows the following so I don't think that is your problem. 
You must have something else eating up yout cpu memory:
122 processes: 121 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:  0.9% user,  3.3% system,  0.0% nice, 95.7% idle 
Mem:   515104K av,  230832K used,   284272K free,