Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 17:28:28 -0500 (EST) From: Joe Oliveiro <joe@whosyourdaddy.com> To: Ryan Younce <ryan@manunkind.org> Cc: Joe Oliveiro <joe@advancewebhosting.com>, Corey Brune <brune@sdf.lonestar.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Process wont be killed. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012061727350.87982-100000@joe.pythonvideo.com> In-Reply-To: <20001206173151.A20117@cheshire.manunkind.org>
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I could very well be that since the Webserver is using a NFS for the content which it servers.. But even when i break the nfs link or wait for a while the process will still be unkillable. Microsoft: "Where would you like to go to today" Linux: "Where would you like to go tomorrow" FreeBSD: "Hey,when are you guys going to catch up" On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Ryan Younce wrote: > Thus spake Joe Oliveiro <joe@advancewebhosting.com>: > > I've encounted times where there was a single apache child/parent process > > running which could not be killed. A reboot would cause the system to hang > > because the process could not be killed. That only happens once in a while > > tho. > > There was something going around on hackers a couple of years ago concerning > processes which, even when signalled with SIGKILL, would not die if they > were in the middle of an I/O operation via a slow FS (like NFS under certain > situations). > > Netscape Enterprise Server (bleh) did the same thing on Solaris, and without > NFS, before Sun patched it. I doubt this is the same thing, though. > > In any event, killing the child will have no effect. > > -- > Ryan Younce | "Well it's worked so far but we're not out yet." > ryan@manunkind.org | --DeForest Kelley (Dr. Leonard McCoy) > www.manunkind.org/~ryan/ | "I, Mudd," Star Trek TOS Prod No 41 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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