Re: Unexplained unresponsiveness of Apache httpd

[André Warnier <aw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Raj Iyer wrote:
> I am currently dealing with a situation where the Apache httpd process
> becomes unresponsive for some time. At the end of this time, the Apache
> error log shows: 
>
> [Mon Nov 2 13:27:49 2009] [warn] child process 7310 did not exit,
> sending another SIGHUP
> [Mon Nov 2 13:27:49 2009] [warn] child process 27558 did not exit,
> sending another SIGHUP
> [Mon Nov 2 13:27:49 2009] [warn] child process 751 did not exit, sending
> another SIGHUP
>
> . . . 
>
> [Mon Nov  2 13:27:50 2009] [warn] child process 7164 still did not exit,
> sending a SIGTERM
>
> [Mon Nov  2 13:27:50 2009] [warn] child process 13494 still did not
> exit, sending a SIGTERM
>
> [Mon Nov  2 13:27:54 2009] [error] child process 26222 still did not
> exit, sending a SIGKILL
>
> [Mon Nov  2 13:27:54 2009] [notice] SIGHUP received.  Attempting to
> restart
>
>  
>
> After this restart, the process resumes normal operation. 
It is not very clear if the messages above happen before, or after you 
have sent a "restart" command to your server.
Can you give a bit more details about what you are doing exactly, step 
by step, and what you mean by being "unresponsive" ?

Also, some additional information about the Apache version, the platform 
on which is running, etc.. would probably not be superfluous.

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