On 2004.05.03, Fen Tamanaha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> % ps -ef | grep 17072
> UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
> nsadmin  17072   900  0 11:54 ?        00:00:02 /apps/aolserver-4.01/bin/nsd -i -t 
> /web/aol-configs/web7-demo-8607.tcl -u nsuser -g nsgroup
> nsadmin  17098 17072  0 11:54 ?        00:00:00 [nsd <defunct>]

I used to see this a lot when running 3.5.x under Linux.  I don't think
I've had this happen since upgrading to 4.x -- however, I'm running CVS
HEAD which is 4.1.

Sadly, I never did figure out what was causing this on 3.5.x.  I have a
feeling under 3.5.x, it was a bug or bad interaction in the nsunix/nsvhr
modules that I didn't have time to track down.  In 4.x, I know there's
an issue with nsd shutdown under Linux where it says it's shutting down,
but the comm. driver times out waiting for the threads to die.

Could be a bad interaction on Linux between signals and threads.  That
pid (17098) is a pseudo-process for Linux threads ... perhaps if one of
the nsd's threads gets a signal it doesn't have a handler for, exactly
what you're seeing could happen.

Wonder what your nsd was doing when this happened ... any clues in the
server log?

-- Dossy

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