Michael J. Flickinger wrote: > On 12/2/11 4:54 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> About an hour ago, for more than 20 minutes, >> git.sv.gnu.org's git server was dead. >> >> A restart attempt failed: >> >> $ service xinetd restart >> Stopping internet superserver: xinetd. >> Starting internet superserver: xinetd failed! >> >> Logs gave no indication of why it failed. >> A little later I tried a simple "start", and that worked. Go figure. >> >> $ service xinetd start >> Starting internet superserver: xinetd. >> > > This has happened before when a bunch of stale git processes piled up. > Did you check how many git processes, via xinetd, were running?
I seem to recall there being many (could have been 40) but didn't count.
