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Nagios error message: "processes with STATE = RSZDT"

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Rahul

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Dec 23, 2008, 4:51:47 PM12/23/08
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Any Nagios users around?

I just installed it to monitor the health of the hosts on my cluster and
one of the "critical" notifications is this:

PROCS CRITICAL: 1217 processes with STATE = RSZDT

I am not sure what exactly this is. Any ideas?

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Tim Greer

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Dec 23, 2008, 5:15:27 PM12/23/08
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Rahul wrote:

You have 1,217 processes in an RSZDT state. R = running, S =
interruptible sleep (waiting to complete), Z = defunct ("zombie")
process, D = uninterruptible sleep, T = stopped. Perhaps this is on
the cluster (total) -- how many servers is it checking, unless it's on
a single system (in which case there may be a problem).
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Rahul

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Dec 23, 2008, 8:23:08 PM12/23/08
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Tim Greer <t...@burlyhost.com> wrote in news:3qd4l.1290$mE3.1179
@newsfe14.iad:

> You have 1,217 processes in an RSZDT state. R = running, S =
> interruptible sleep (waiting to complete), Z = defunct ("zombie")
> process, D = uninterruptible sleep, T = stopped. Perhaps this is on
> the cluster (total) -- how many servers is it checking, unless it's on
> a single system (in which case there may be a problem).
>

Thanks Tim. I wasn't getting the RSZDT part of it. I just checked it and it
seems that these are all processes on my server (not my cluster). Something
went seriously wrong! I'm glad I just got Nagios! :)

I'm trying to figure why my processes exploded!

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Rahul

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