The following reply was made to PR os-solaris/1190; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Eugene Crosser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Dean Gaudet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: os-solaris/1190: server processes in keepalive state do not die after keepalive-timeout Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 01:54:13 +0300 (MSK) > Do you have any third party modules compiled in? Normally I do but I specially compiled a virgin version to check, and it behaves exactly the same way. > Are you using IdentityCheck? Probably no as I don't know what's that ;) > Are you using the proxy module? No. > 1.3 includes a rewritten alarm system... so it may actually work. But I will compile and try 1.3, maybe next week. I will report the results. > you wrote "1300 hits/day" ... I think you mean a few orders magnitude > more, right? :) No. The server is not *really* busy, I just mean that this cannot be reproduced on a `test only' server, you need people coming from various places and leaving connections up for a long time. > It's possible we still have a race condition which > manifests itself only on solaris. It very well might be a bug in Solaris, but as 1.1 works fine, a workaround must exist... > Did you ever try doing kill -ALRM to one of the stuck keepalive children? > Did it recover? I wrote it twice in my reports: yes I tried to kill the processes with -ALRM, and *no*, the process does not notice it! But if I kill it with -TERM, it gracefully terminates. Eugene
