Re: Informix 7.x SE Defunct processes

I presume you are running Digital UNIXF on your Alpha server defunct or zombie processes are processes that have been orphaned and cannot send a "death of child" signal back to the parent since the init process should inherit the child processes of processes that have died or been prematurely terminated I would guess that the parent process is ignoring signals from the child. This could be either a bug in Informix, a bug in digital UNIX or a bug in your code. If you are using code that you have written, make sure that the parent process is not ignoring the death of child signal. "J. Ostrinski" <jostrins@rautewood.ca> wrote: >Whenever our MRP application executes, or an ODBC call is made to our >Informix database, a defunct process is created on our AlphaServer. >Eventually this uses up all our swap space and I have to kill the processes >and restart sqlexecd. Can someone tell me what might be causing this ? > >Thanks, >Juergen > Mike South Producer/Director "Mike South's Peaches & Cream" "Mike South's Georgia Peaches" http://www.mike-south.com Winner 1997 AVN Best Amateur Video Winner 1998 AVN Best Amateur Video Winner 1996 Rocky Mountain Oyster Readers Poll Best Pro-Am Series