TS 4.5.1: Multiple iwserver processes on Solaris

We are getting lots of iwserver processes when running our system for several days without restarting the teamsite server (there were 21 iwserver processes last week). This issue is addressed in Patch 1119. We installed this patch but the problem still persists.
Anybody else got this problem? Any hints how to solve it?

Thanks

Olaf

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mmb

Olaf,

We too were experiencing this behaviour with TS4.5.1. Have you installed service pack 2? Admittedly this didnt cure the problems 100% but it did improve the number of iwservers that appeared.
It seems that when a workflow job gets stuck or crashes out for some reason, it causes the iwserver process to spawn itself.
IF you have got root access on the box, you could either manually kill these rogue iwservers or you could write a script to act as a watchdog and kill them off as they are spawned.

- mark

Migrateduser

You are on the correct track. What is most likely happening is that the server attempts to fork an external task from the main iwserver task. For some reason it then has a problem (maybe running into resource limitations) the server was not able to complete changing the name of the process.

Sometimes this can be resolved by taking a closer look at the external tasks or what causing the resource problems.