Cannot kill many processes whose ppid is 1
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Hello.
In a production system SunOS we found the same processes witth ppid = 1, so there must be going on with the application and there are more than 3k processes and increasing, for instance
Code:ps -fu xpinvoice| grep launch_web|wc -l
3086Code:bash-3.2$ ps -fea | grep launch_web
xpinvoice 56525 1 0 15:00:29 ? 0:00 sh //produccion/explotacion/xpinvoice/facturacion/ksh/launch_web.ksh -u/ -l3 -eFG
xpinvoice 68873 1 0 12:08:37 ? 0:00 sh //produccion/explotacion/xpinvoice/facturacion/ksh/launch_web.ksh -u/ -l3 -eFG
xpinvoice 15141 1 0 14:36:50 ? 0:00 sh //produccion/explotacion/xpinvoice/facturacion/ksh/launch_web.ksh -u/ -l3 -eFG
xpinvoice 6962 1 0 12:10:16 ? 0:00 sh //produccion/explotacion/xpinvoice/facturacion/ksh/launch_web.ksh -u/ -l3 -eFG
xpinvoice 69284 1 0 16:31:45 ? 0:00 sh //produccion/explotacion/xpinvoice/facturacion/ksh/launch_web.ksh -u/ -l3 -eFG
xpinvoice 37469 1 0 15:25:49 ? 0:00 sh //produccion/explotacion/xpinvoice/facturacion/ksh/launch_web.ksh -u/ -l3 -eFG
xpinvoice 48415 1 0 12:33:02 ? 0:00 sh //produccion/explotacion/xpinvoice/facturacion/ksh/launch_web.ksh -u/ -l3 -eFG
xpinvoice 47245 1 0 12:18:31 ? 0:00 sh //produccion/explotacion/xpinvoice/facturacion/ksh/launch_web.ksh -u/ -l3 -eFG
xpinvoice 62592 1 0 12:07:21 ? 0:00 sh //produccion/explotacion/xpinvoice/facturacion/ksh/launch_web.ksh -u/ -l3 -eFG
xpinvoice 66140 1 0 16:46:16 ? 0:00 sh //produccion/explotacion/xpinvoice/facturacion/ksh/launch_web.ksh -u/ -l3 -eFG
xpinvoice 15841 1 0 15:50:22 ? 0:00 sh //produccion/explotacion/xpinvoice/facturacion/ksh/launch_web.ksh -u/ -l3 -eFG
xpinvoice 11251 1 0 14:21:22 ? 0:00 sh //produccion/explotacion/xpinvoice/facturacion/ksh/launch_web.ksh -u/ -l3 -eFG
xpinvoice 26343 1 0 15:08:44 ? 0:00 sh //produccion/explotacion/xpinvoice/facturacion/ksh/launch_web.ksh -u/ -l3 -eFGI could not kill those processes, so i escalete up this issue to our sys administrator who says there is no way to kill these processes because they are tied to the kernel, so it is necessary to restart the server, so these question come up:
1 its kind of odd to find the same processes with too many processes with ppid =1 ? so it has something to do with an application failure?
why did our sys admin say these processes are related to the kernel and its necessary to restart the server?
I appreciate your help in advanced?
In a production system SunOS we found the same processes witth ppid = 1, so there must be going on with the application and there are more than 3k processes and increasing, for instance
Code:ps -fu xpinvoice| grep launch_web|wc -l
3086Code:bash-3.2$ ps -fea | grep launch_web
xpinvoice 56525 1 0 15:00:29 ? 0:00 sh //produccion/explotacion/xpinvoice/facturacion/ksh/launch_web.ksh -u/ -l3 -eFG
xpinvoice 68873 1 0 12:08:37 ? 0:00 sh //produccion/explotacion/xpinvoice/facturacion/ksh/launch_web.ksh -u/ -l3 -eFG
xpinvoice 15141 1 0 14:36:50 ? 0:00 sh //produccion/explotacion/xpinvoice/facturacion/ksh/launch_web.ksh -u/ -l3 -eFG
xpinvoice 6962 1 0 12:10:16 ? 0:00 sh //produccion/explotacion/xpinvoice/facturacion/ksh/launch_web.ksh -u/ -l3 -eFG
xpinvoice 69284 1 0 16:31:45 ? 0:00 sh //produccion/explotacion/xpinvoice/facturacion/ksh/launch_web.ksh -u/ -l3 -eFG
xpinvoice 37469 1 0 15:25:49 ? 0:00 sh //produccion/explotacion/xpinvoice/facturacion/ksh/launch_web.ksh -u/ -l3 -eFG
xpinvoice 48415 1 0 12:33:02 ? 0:00 sh //produccion/explotacion/xpinvoice/facturacion/ksh/launch_web.ksh -u/ -l3 -eFG
xpinvoice 47245 1 0 12:18:31 ? 0:00 sh //produccion/explotacion/xpinvoice/facturacion/ksh/launch_web.ksh -u/ -l3 -eFG
xpinvoice 62592 1 0 12:07:21 ? 0:00 sh //produccion/explotacion/xpinvoice/facturacion/ksh/launch_web.ksh -u/ -l3 -eFG
xpinvoice 66140 1 0 16:46:16 ? 0:00 sh //produccion/explotacion/xpinvoice/facturacion/ksh/launch_web.ksh -u/ -l3 -eFG
xpinvoice 15841 1 0 15:50:22 ? 0:00 sh //produccion/explotacion/xpinvoice/facturacion/ksh/launch_web.ksh -u/ -l3 -eFG
xpinvoice 11251 1 0 14:21:22 ? 0:00 sh //produccion/explotacion/xpinvoice/facturacion/ksh/launch_web.ksh -u/ -l3 -eFG
xpinvoice 26343 1 0 15:08:44 ? 0:00 sh //produccion/explotacion/xpinvoice/facturacion/ksh/launch_web.ksh -u/ -l3 -eFGI could not kill those processes, so i escalete up this issue to our sys administrator who says there is no way to kill these processes because they are tied to the kernel, so it is necessary to restart the server, so these question come up:
1 its kind of odd to find the same processes with too many processes with ppid =1 ? so it has something to do with an application failure?
why did our sys admin say these processes are related to the kernel and its necessary to restart the server?
I appreciate your help in advanced?