Andrew Martin wrote: > From: "Jim Rees" <rees@xxxxxxxxx> > Why would a bunch of blocked apaches cause high load and reboot? What I believe happens is the apache child processes go to serve these requests and then block in uninterruptable sleep. Thus, there are fewer and fewer child processes to handle new incoming requests. Eventually, apache would normally kill said children (e.g after a child handles a certain number of requests), but it cannot kill them because they are in uninterruptable sleep. As more and more incoming requests are queued (and fewer and fewer child processes are available to serve the requests), the load climbs. But Neil says the sleeps should be interruptible, despite what the man page says. Trond, as far as you know, should a soft mount be interruptible by SIGINT, or should it require a SIGKILL? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
