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Re: How can I keep monitoring a Zombie process?


From: MosheC
Subject: Re: How can I keep monitoring a Zombie process?
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 16:39:25 -0700 (PDT)

I certainly think you should.
the zombie process itself might be unmanageable but there is no reason to
not start a new process or to stop monitoring the new process.
In fact, instead of doing that, I had to resort to monitoring the PID file
for changes.

Moshe


Martin Pala wrote:
> 
> Should we allow further monitoring? It can be probably better (more 
> flexible).
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
> Martin Pala wrote:
>> Yes, the idea behind it is that the zombie process is usually
>> unmanageable.
>> 
>> Monit thus sends alert and stops the zombie service monitoring.
>> 
>> 
>> Martin
>> 
>> 
>> MosheC wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I have the following line   check process xxx with pidfile 
>>> /home/moshe/icpipe/run/xxx.pid
>>> Process xxx occasionally becomes a zombie but a new one is created
>>> automatically.
>>>
>>> The problem is that monit automatically stops monitoring the process 
>>> when it
>>> zombies.
>>>
>>> I have also tried to trick Monit to think it can restart the process 
>>> itself
>>> with:
>>>    check process xxx with pidfile /home/moshe/icpipe/run/xxx.pid
>>>         start program = "/bin/true" ###
>>>         stop program = "/bin/true" ###
>>> but that didn't help either.
>>>
>>>
>> 
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