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 <rbr...@sceen.net> 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