This ticket has been idle for a month, anyone have a resolution yet? :(
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Title:
Strange 'fork/clone' blocking behavior under high cpu usage on EC2
I see this in a particularly annoying way.
apt-get when run from another tool (like puppet) will have /dev/null for
stdin. apt-get foolishly select(2)s on stdin which results in 100% cpu
usage (stdin is always ready when it is /dev/null). This 100% cpu
qualifies for the fork-blocking, and since ap
