Re: Bad behavior of recv on already closed sockets.

From: Denis Perchine (dyp@perchine.com)
Date: Tue Dec 12 2000 - 07:38:46 EST


Hi,

> > Looks like it tries to read on socket which is already closed from other
> > side. And it seems like recv did not return in this case. Is this OK, or
> > kernel bug?
>
> This smells like an unknown bug in kernel.
>
> It is unknown, hence there is no workaround (but upgrading to 2.4).
>
> It would be better to understand the issue f.e. trying to restore
> the history of this descriptor.

How to do this? I mean what should I do to provide you with more information?

> > On the other side I see entries like this:
> > httpd 4260 root 4u IPv4 12173018 TCP
> > 127.0.0.1:3994->127.0.0.1:5432 (CLOSE_WAIT)
> >
> > And again. There is no any corresponding postmaster process. Does anyone
> > has such expirience before? And what can be the reason of such strange
> > things.
>
> And this is bug in the application, which forgot to close file.
> Descriptor leakage in httpd or it is blocked at some another job.
>
> But remembering about the first case, I am not so sure.
> What does httpd make this time?

Hmmm... It's like this. There is an apache with mod_perl. Actually this
connection should be closed, if there was a failure, but somehow it is not.
And possibly it is a fd in DBD::Pg code (or libpq code). I will think how to
check this...

-- 
Sincerely Yours,
Denis Perchine

---------------------------------- E-Mail: dyp@perchine.com HomePage: http://www.perchine.com/dyp/ FidoNet: 2:5000/120.5 ---------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Fri Dec 15 2000 - 21:00:24 EST