On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 13:54, Jaysingh Samuel <jayasingh.sam...@hotmail.com>wrote:
> > Hi soren, > Thanks for useful information on this. > We are not spawning children from the pre/post config, but still i could > see the long lost child alerts. This alerts is coming only on graceful > restart(SIGUSR) of the server and not on restart on the server. > When i did debug on the worker server_main function i could see that after > the run config is done for all the modules, there are many process ID thrown > with "long lost child", and after that the server resumes with the children. > Iam wondering is the alerts are showing because of the custom modules what > we are using a longer time to finish with?. > Well, I have no idea, but it could be the cause. Try putting a big GracefulShutdownTimeout http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mpm_common.html#gracefulshutdowntimeoutand see what happens. S > Please throw some light on this. > Thanks in advance. Jaysingh Samuel > > Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 08:51:25 +0200 > > Subject: Re: Repetitive warnings on ErrorLogs. > > From: sor...@gmail.com > > To: modules-dev@httpd.apache.org > > > > On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 08:41, Jaysingh > > Samuel<jayasingh.sam...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > We are getting the following warning's on the error Logs. The warning > are shown at graceful restart of apache server. > > > > > > [warn] long lost child came home! (pid 31188) > > > > > > We are doing graceful restart of apache server every 30 minutes and we > get these warning repetitively, i have tested with the apache "restart" and > that's not showing warning. > > > Is this a fatal error?. More light on this regarding the cause and > solution to stop this will be very helpful. > > > > > > Thanks in advance,Jaysingh Samuel. > > > > > > Apache keeps its children in a table of process IDs, called the > > scoreboard. Then, the main server, the one that has created and > > started the children processes, waits on them. When the child exits, > > the main server looks up the PID of the exiting child in the > > scoreboard. If the child is not in the scoreboard, you get this > > warning. > > > > It may occur if you start children from your main server (for example > > in the pre/post_config hooks). As you start them yourself, they won't > > be managed by apache, so their PIDs do not appear in the scoreboard. > > This would be a "harmless" way in which you could get the warning when > > you shut down your children. > > > > S > > > > -- > > A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. > > Q: Why is top-posting frowned upon? > > A: Top-posting. > > Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? > > _________________________________________________________________ > We all see it as it is. But on MSN India, the difference lies in > perspective. > http://in.msn.com > -- A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top-posting frowned upon? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
