Re: <http://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/> (was: Small web server for the Hurd)
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 04:56:31PM +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Sun, 22 Nov 2015 01:01:09 +0100, Richard Braun <rbraun@sceen.net> wrote:
> > It looks like some changes in the past months have increased the
> > severity of some bugs apache is having when spawning CGIs, resulting
> > in unkillable processes and the freezing of the parent apache process.
> > This had the effect of making the darnassus.sceen.net server almost
> > unusable publicly.
>
> :-/
FYI, the problem still occurs, although much less frequently. I assume
there is a race issue with exec/fork. The tough part is that SIGKILL is
unable to kill those bogus child processes, forcing a complete system
reset.
--
Richard Braun
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