On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 11:38 -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote:
> My understanding (I haven't really looked at that code) is that "K" means the
> child has been killed but it hasn't exited yet. If a child is in that state
> for more than, say, 5 seconds, there's likely an issue where it doesn't
> actually die off, imo.
>
> You should generally see states of I or B.
>
I get the feeling that something is wrong here. I have restarted SA, and
grepped the log file. It shows:
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prefork: child states: BI
prefork: child states: BB
prefork: child states: BBB
prefork: child states: BBBB
prefork: child states: BBBBS
prefork: child states: BBBBII
prefork: child states: IBBBII
prefork: child states: IIBBIK
prefork: child states: IIIBKK
prefork: child states: IIKIKK
prefork: child states: IBKKKK
prefork: child states: IIKKKK
prefork: child states: BBKKKK
prefork: child states: BBKKKKB
prefork: child states: BBKKKKBB
prefork: server reached --max-children setting, consider raising it
prefork: child states: BIKKKKBB
prefork: child states: IBKKKKBB
prefork: child states: IBKKKKIB
prefork: child states: IIKKKKIB
prefork: child states: BIKKKKKI
prefork: child states: IBKKKKKB
prefork: child states: BBKKKKKI
prefork: child states: BIKKKKKI
prefork: child states: IIKKKKKI
prefork: child states: IBKKKKKK
prefork: child states: IIKKKKKK
prefork: child states: BBKKKKKK
prefork: server reached --max-children setting, consider raising it
prefork: child states: BBKKKKKK
prefork: server reached --max-children setting, consider raising it
prefork: child states: IBKKKKKK
prefork: child states: BIKKKKKK
prefork: child states: IIKKKKKK
=======================================================================
Some of the processes seem to almost immediately go in to the 'killed'
state and stay there. 'ps auxww' shows that all 8 child processes are
started. Running an strace (this is a Fedora Core 4 server) on some of
the processes seems to show that they are waiting on select, and then
get a 'resources unavailable' error. What resource I have no idea. E.g:
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strace -Ff -p 12805
Process 12805 attached - interrupt to quit
select(16, [10], NULL, NULL, {290, 888000}) = 1 (in [10], left {147,
820000})
read(10, "P....\n", 6) = 6
read(10, 0xb4515f0, 6) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource
temporarily unavailable)
time(NULL) = 1157559274
select(16, [10], NULL, NULL, {300, 0}
=======================================================================
The process just sits there in this loop of some sort, and never seems
to do any actual spam processing.
Any ideas about this?
Thanks,
John.
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