From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 6 14:28:47 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 6 14:28:45 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from joe.pythonvideo.com (joe.pythonvideo.com [209.226.29.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C05BB37B401 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 14:28:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (joe@localhost) by joe.pythonvideo.com (8.11.1/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eB6MSSI88252; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 17:28:28 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from joe@whosyourdaddy.com) X-Authentication-Warning: joe.pythonvideo.com: joe owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 17:28:28 -0500 (EST) From: Joe Oliveiro X-Sender: joe@joe.pythonvideo.com To: Ryan Younce Cc: Joe Oliveiro , Corey Brune , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Process wont be killed. In-Reply-To: <20001206173151.A20117@cheshire.manunkind.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I could very well be that since the Webserver is using a NFS for the content which it servers.. But even when i break the nfs link or wait for a while the process will still be unkillable. Microsoft: "Where would you like to go to today" Linux: "Where would you like to go tomorrow" FreeBSD: "Hey,when are you guys going to catch up" On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Ryan Younce wrote: > Thus spake Joe Oliveiro : > > I've encounted times where there was a single apache child/parent process > > running which could not be killed. A reboot would cause the system to hang > > because the process could not be killed. That only happens once in a while > > tho. > > There was something going around on hackers a couple of years ago concerning > processes which, even when signalled with SIGKILL, would not die if they > were in the middle of an I/O operation via a slow FS (like NFS under certain > situations). > > Netscape Enterprise Server (bleh) did the same thing on Solaris, and without > NFS, before Sun patched it. I doubt this is the same thing, though. > > In any event, killing the child will have no effect. > > -- > Ryan Younce | "Well it's worked so far but we're not out yet." > ryan@manunkind.org | --DeForest Kelley (Dr. Leonard McCoy) > www.manunkind.org/~ryan/ | "I, Mudd," Star Trek TOS Prod No 41 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message