Jeff Trawick wrote:
>
> exit(APEXIT_CHILDFATAL) isn't too cool... the parent process bails out
> without cleaning stuff up
agreed, it sounds bad. Is there more cleanup we could do without
getting into trouble? Do we need something in between exit() and
clean_child_exit?
> this patch retries apr_thread_create() after an interval; apache stays
> healthy (though it doesn't free up system resources; it merely assumes
> they will free up after a time)
they may or may not free up
> maybe we shouldn't retry the thread creation endlessly?
> maybe we should sleep a different interval?
why don't we do an exponential backoff, starting at about a second and
ending at about a minute? If it doesn't work after a minute, I don't
think there's any point in further retries.
Greg
