I have installed sap hostagent 720 patch 194 on HP-UX ia64 / Oracle 11g systems. It's having the same problem on all of our servers. When I start the host agent, within seconds it starts spawning zombies. I know it to be the host agent as I perform this...
ps -ef |grep def
root 29961 28836 1 10:01:00 ? 0:00 <defunct>
root 304 28836 1 10:02:01 ? 0:00 <defunct>
root 29186 28836 0 09:59:58 ? 0:00 <defunct>
Then look for the parent:
ps -ef |grep 28836
root 29961 28836 1 10:01:00 ? 0:00 <defunct>
root 304 28836 1 10:02:01 ? 0:00 <defunct>
root 558 28836 0 10:03:02 ? 0:00 <defunct>
root 29186 28836 0 09:59:58 ? 0:00 <defunct>
root 28836 1 0 09:58:57 ? 0:00 /usr/sap/hostctrl/exe/saposcol -l -w60 pf=/usr/sap/hostctrl/exe/host_profile
I get this same thing on all of my systems. I have been trying to find a solution for this for some time so I hope someone here can help.
Thanks in advance,
Kyle