The following reply was made to PR os-irix/2002; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Brian Behlendorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Subject: Re: os-irix/2002: unkillable httpd processes
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 15:20:03 -0700
At 09:49 AM 5/20/98 -0400, you wrote:
> Our documents are on an NFS volume, but the ServerRoot is on a local
> disk.
Hmm, okay, that's usually been the cause of unkillable processes that we've
seen. To be fair, there /should/ be nothing that Apache can do to cause
unkillable processes; that's clearly an operating system bug. The best we
can hope to do is avoid some legitimate sequence of events which leads to
that situation; so to help you any further we'd need some better
information as to what conditions cause these sporadic unkillable processes
occur.
Not to sound like I'm avoiding the issue, but isn't Irix up to 6.4 now, or
at least 6.3?
If you can't kill a process you probably can't ktrace it. Can you see what
state it was last in? I'm not familiar with Irix's process debugging and
management tools.
Brian
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