Odd: still running, but two sets of zmc's

Baylink · Post by **Baylink** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 9:03 pm

I poked my head in on my first ZM install, which is in live beta, because I was wondering why the load average was up over 3. I found, amongst other things in the process table, this:

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25189 ?        S      0:14 /usr/bin/perl -wT /usr/local/bin/zmdc.pl status
25220 ?        S      0:00  \_ /usr/bin/perl -wT /usr/local/bin/zmfilter.pl
25224 ?        S      1:27  \_ /usr/bin/perl -wT /usr/local/bin/zmaudit.pl -d 90
25228 ?        S      0:48  \_ /usr/bin/perl -wT /usr/local/bin/zmwatch.pl
18265 ?        S    910:56  \_ /usr/local/bin/zma -m 2
31359 ?        S    114:49  \_ /usr/local/bin/zmc -m 1
 8488 ?        S    952:43  \_ /usr/local/bin/zma -m 1
11363 ?        S     94:37  \_ /usr/local/bin/zmc -m 2
25726 ?        S      7:23  \_ /usr/local/bin/zmc -m 1
29046 ?        S      5:13  \_ /usr/local/bin/zmc -m 2

I'm wondering how multiple zmc's could end up running, and what the results of that might be in the Real World.

Post by **zoneminder** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 3:32 pm

That is generally not a good thing, though I'm not sure how it could happen really. Can you look in zmdc.log and see if/when the processes are being started. Older versions of ZM had a problem where processes would sometimes not get reaped and so be left as zombies but I don't think that seems to be happening in your case.

Phil

Baylink · Post by **Baylink** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 7:15 pm

I'll take a look. It's happened again over the weekend.

The machine is on a wireless link, but I'm having interference problems with it, so I'm not sure I can suck the log out.