tis 2009-08-04 klockan 10:56 +0200 skrev Zeller, Jan: > Hi all, > > would like to know if from user perspective the signal 6 will have a > significant http service interruption. > I've tested this with wget and sent a kill -6 to the child process and to my > surprise wget was still downloading without any service interruption.
Why signal 6? I don't see how wget would have surived that if it was using the proxy.. > How would loadbalancers handle this behaviour ? Do they notice this signal 6 ? Signal 6 forces an unexpected restart, temporarily stopping the whole service.. very intrusive. > By the way is signal 6 really > > $ kill -l > 6) SIGABRT ? Yes. It's much better if you use the "squid -k ..." functions to communicate with Squid than using kill manually.. Regards Henrik
