hi, does anyone know how to increase the time apache will wait before sending a SIGKILL to cgi-processes? (Or to change the kill-policy used with subprocesses?) problem background:
I'm using BerkeleyDB from my perl-cgi-scripts, but I don't know how to close the database in case of signals in an reliable way. I do this in my signal handler(SIGTERM and SIGPIPE), but occasionally this closing takes longer than 3 seconds and then apache uses SIGKILL to *kill* the child. I believe that, since closing the database involves removing handles from shared memory, the cgi-process is waiting for a exclusive lock on the shared memory region. There is nothing you can do about a SIGKILL, and so the shared memory region is left inconsistent. Since this a load-dependend issue, this time values should be set in the config...but any ideas? Reading the source I saw that free_proc_chain invokes the killing of the subprocesses, and this cleanup is invoked before waiting on a new connection. how can I prevent this cleanup from happening? thx in advance, lothar -- Lothar Märkle - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Netpioneer GmbH - Beiertheimer Allee 18a - D-76137 Karlsruhe Tel: 0721 / 9 20 60 43 Fax: 0721 / 9 20 60 30
