Re: [OT] Killing off children

2000-04-13 Thread Bill Moseley
At 10:49 PM 04/12/00 -0700, Doug MacEachern wrote: On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Bill Moseley wrote: Hello, I noticed on the Apache server-status report a child that is stuck in "G" (Gracefully finishing) after a SIGUSR1 today. Twelve hours ago. this could be perl_destruct() hanging while trying

Re: [OT] Killing off children

2000-04-13 Thread Doug MacEachern
Two followup questions: 1) Would truss show this -- or is there a way to test this? 2) Would you expect the child to survive a kill -9 while hanging? if the process is in a state where you can't kill -9 or attach with strace or gdb, etc., i have no idea exactly what triggered that. all

[OT] Killing off children

2000-04-12 Thread Bill Moseley
Hello, I noticed on the Apache server-status report a child that is stuck in "G" (Gracefully finishing) after a SIGUSR1 today. Twelve hours ago. I don't have root access on this machine, but I thought I'd run a CGI script to run as "nobody" and kill off the child. (I've done this once before

Re: [OT] Killing off children

2000-04-12 Thread Stas Bekman
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Bill Moseley wrote: Hello, I noticed on the Apache server-status report a child that is stuck in "G" (Gracefully finishing) after a SIGUSR1 today. Twelve hours ago. I don't have root access on this machine, but I thought I'd run a CGI script to run as "nobody" and

Re: [OT] Killing off children

2000-04-12 Thread Bill Moseley
At 09:25 AM 04/12/00 +0200, Stas Bekman wrote: On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Bill Moseley wrote: I noticed on the Apache server-status report a child that is stuck in "G" (Gracefully finishing) after a SIGUSR1 today. Twelve hours ago. Looks like a system problem, what do you see when you attach to a

Re: [OT] Killing off children

2000-04-12 Thread Doug MacEachern
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Bill Moseley wrote: Hello, I noticed on the Apache server-status report a child that is stuck in "G" (Gracefully finishing) after a SIGUSR1 today. Twelve hours ago. this could be perl_destruct() hanging while trying to cleanup. this normally isn't a requirement, you