Unable to kill old <defunct> processes under DSADM in

amaresh · Post by **amaresh** » Sun Nov 14, 2010 2:26 am

Hi,

I have broght the datastage(v8.1) server down (in AIX). Now I checked that there few old processes as below are stil running. I am not able to kill (kill -9) those.

Could you pls let me any resolution to this?

dsadm 1884338 1 0 Jul 22 - 0:00 /opt/IBM/InformationServer/Server/PXEngine/bin/osh -APT_PMsectionLeaderFlag mjnraxd018 10002 1 30 node2 mjnraxd018 1279813249.813487.f90d6 0
dsadm 1958114 2359388 0 0:00 <defunct>
dsadm 1990838 1 0 Oct 27 - 0:00 /opt/IBM/InformationServer/Server/PXEngine/bin/osh -APT_PMsectionLeaderFlag mjnraxd018 10003 0 30 node1 mjnraxd018 1288170077.373548.1910ca 0
dsadm 2359388 1 0 Jul 22 - 0:00 /opt/IBM/InformationServer/Server/PXEngine/bin/osh -APT_PMsectionLeaderFlag mjnraxd018 10002 2 30 node3 mjnraxd018 1279813249.813487.f90d6 0

Thanks
Amaresh

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Sun Nov 14, 2010 3:04 am

Welcome aboard. At least one of these processes is defunct. What do you know about "zombies" in UNIX? You may need to restart the UNIX machine. Next time, make sure nothing is running before you shut down the Engine services.