Re: Success with Adrea's delack timer patch (Was: Ok, I give up)

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Mon Feb 14 2000 - 10:58:05 EST


> This is kind of late, but I can tell you that the delack-timer-5 patch
> mentioned below (which has been included in 2.2.15pre1 and above, I
> believe) has solved my long-standing problem of the crashing webserver
> (both Apache and Mathopd) locking up the whole machine on 2.2.x.
> The webserver in question has been up for 7 days non-stop (used to reach
> maximum 2 days), and the only problem I had with a stock 2.2.14 and the
> delack-timer-5 patch was that every now and then a process (not always the
> same) got stuck and became unkillable, causing a load of 1 for each stuck
> process. I rebooted the machine with 2 stuck processes after 7 days, and
> now it has been up for another 5 days, no stuck processes yet.

Excellent. we've been working on a couple of unkillable process fixes
as well so 2.2.15pre7 might sort that too

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