On Mon, 18 Dec 2017, Bill Cole wrote:
On 18 Dec 2017, at 14:32 (-0500), Pedro David Marco wrote:
> maybe they are processing mail and will exit after it's done...
Thanks Fantomas, this is what i would expect and it seems what happens...
spamd childs get the SIGNAL and act accordingly, but for some reason,
sometimes they IGNORE the SIGNAL... :-(
------PedroD
Not really 'IGNORE' perhaps; they could be in an uninterruptible sleep state
such as blocked waiting on synchronous I/O. For some filesystems on some
kernels (e.g. Solaris NFS) it is possible for a mount to go bad in such a way
that any process trying to do anything with it gets stuck.
Or things running on certain VM environments. My old hosted VM rotted in
that manner - it was *really* annoying when something critical got wedged
waiting for an I/O that would never complete.
When you run a "ps", Are those orphaned children in state "D" (waiting for
disk I/O)?
If you have any currently doign that, a "ps" might provide useful
troubleshooting info for the list.
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