Re: <http://darnassus.sceen.net/~hurd-web/> (was: Small web server for the Hurd)

Richard Braun <[email protected]> Tue, 12 Jan 2016 14:17:31 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.os.hurd.bugs,gmane.os.hurd.web.devel,gmane.linux.debian.ports.hurd
Message-ID	<20160112131731.GA15302@shattrath>

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 04:56:31PM +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On Sun, 22 Nov 2015 01:01:09 +0100, Richard Braun <[email protected]> wrote:
> > It looks like some changes in the past months have increased the
> > severity of some bugs apache is having when spawning CGIs, resulting
> > in unkillable processes and the freezing of the parent apache process.
> > This had the effect of making the darnassus.sceen.net server almost
> > unusable publicly.
> 
> :-/

FYI, the problem still occurs, although much less frequently. I assume
there is a race issue with exec/fork. The tough part is that SIGKILL is
unable to kill those bogus child processes, forcing a complete system
reset.

-- 
Richard Braun