>-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [SNIP]
>Two possibilities: > >* the command/Fetch URI is stuck also, or I don't think the client did any Fetch when apache stopped. >* something died holding the post lock, and it didn't get >automagically cleaned up. I attached gdb to each of the httpd's, and among 20 processes (with 50 threads each), 8 of them were stuck with the do_post thing, and others were not doing anything !. The error_log didn't say anything about the error.. >I recall hearing that SysV sems are notorious for that on >some platforms. I'm thinking of having the SEM_UNDO flag while creating the semaphore (if it's not already enabled) There's one more thing I noticed (might be specific to HP-UX) : I saw more errors with keepalive ON rather than when it was OFF. -Madhu