Thanks for the workaround, Milton. Will we see a fix for this problem
soon, though?
- Dave
Milton Ngan wrote:
> If you are talking about the "defunct" forks, then the work around for this
> is to send a standard SIGTERM to the defunct process. Normally this would do
> nothing, but in this case the process still has a couple of child threads
> that haven't terminated. Sending the SIGTERM signal to the parent process
> will result in the termination signal reaching the child threads, which will
> terminate. The defunct process will then complete its termination and the
> parent srcds process will respawn the fork.
>
> A cron job or a monitoring process to detect these defunct processes should
> be sufficient to keep your servers in shape. I use a command a bit like this:
>
> Kill `ps ax | grep srcds_i486 | grep defunct | grep -v grep | awk '{print
> $1}'`
>
>
> M.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com
> [mailto:hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of f7 f0rkz
> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 4:53 AM
> To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list
> Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] L4D forks crashing
>
> Well, at least there is a fix. Our servers are usually full all the time
> and I am tired of kicking players out because a server crashed in their
> fork.
>
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 5:54 AM, Eric-Jan Riemers <riem...@binkey.nl> wrote:
>
>> So i assume thats valve time? Christmas or so? ;-)
>>
>> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>> Van: hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com
>> [mailto:hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] Namens Ronny Schedel
>> Verzonden: donderdag 24 september 2009 9:17
>> Aan: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list
>> Onderwerp: Re: [hlds_linux] L4D forks crashing
>>
>> I have got a response from a Valve employee, they have found the cause and
>> they have a fix. We just have to wait for the release.
>>
>>
>>> Is there any progress yet in fixing the crashing forks issue in L4D? We
>>> have 2 forked servers, 1 with 4 forks and 1 with 20 forks (different
>>> machines). Both forks show crashed instances. More and more forks crash
>>> the more time passes without a reboot. From the 24 servers which should
>> be
>>
>>> online after a reboot 2 days ago, just 9(!!) remain atm.
>>>
>>> Saint K.
>>>
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