On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 03:58:05PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > 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
Talking about unkillable processes - I've just encountered a froozen df
process. Kernel was 2.2.12-20 (Redhat 6.1) kernel running on a laptop but
recompiled with different options. I was running rm -rf on a large
directory, did ^Z and bg on the rm, then a df.
Ralf
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