Re: lighttpd+fastcgi: the process of test.fcgi will become zombie( <defunct>).

I don't know if this is your problem, but whenever fastcgi creates zombies
for me it's usually because my code is not sending back the correct http
headers for the http response like content-type, content-length, etc plus
two carriage returns at the end of the headers.  I believe the process
zombies because mod_fcgid won't do anything until it gets the headers.
Check your code and make sure headers are being returned.

 

Martin  

 

 

 

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On Behalf Of CHENG LIANG
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 10:24 AM
To: fastcgi
Subject: [FASTCGI] lighttpd+fastcgi: the process of test.fcgi will become
zombie( <defunct>).

 

Hi, 

 

I have the problem for fastcgi and I can not figure out the root cause.

 

I wrote fast cgi process in C using fcgi_stdio package under lighttpd under
linux 2.6.31. Suppose we call this fastcgi process as test.fcgi. In the
test.fcgi, I need periodically load some data into the memory (suppose it is
function data_load()) and I create a thread for it using pthread library
because I do not want to interrupt the service from test.fcgi. And the data
in memory is in the hash table which I use implementation from GLIB.and I
use Alarm signal in the test.fcgi to set up a timer to trigger the event to
load data into memory. The problem I have is that every time when Alarm
signal send to test.fcgi, the process of test.fcgi will become zombie(
<defunct>).

 

 

The following tests have been done and I still have no idea what is root
cause.

 

Remove the pthread_create call and directly call function data_load(), the
problem still there.

 

Using different way to set up a timer, like, using function alarm(), or
using function setitimer(), the problem still there.

 

And if I do not operate memory in the function data_load(), for example,
make function data_load() empty, then the problem is gone.

 

 

>From the error.log of lighttpd, when test.fcgi becomes defunct, there is no
any message in it and after that, when I issue http request to the test.fcgi
service, I will have the following message in the error.log and new process
of test.fcgi will be created.

 

2010-11-01 12:09:23: (mod_fastcgi.c.1768) connect failed: Connection refused
on unix:/tmp/fastcgi.socket-0

2010-11-01 12:09:23: (mod_fastcgi.c.2956) backend died; we'll disable it for
5 seconds and send the request to another backend instead: reconnects: 0
load: 1

2010-11-01 12:09:23: (mod_fastcgi.c.2722) child signaled: 11

 

 

Since the signal 11 is SIGSEGV, so it looks like to me that the problem is
memory access in function data_load(). Is this idea making sense?

 

 

Thanks a lot for any help.



Cheng Liang

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