Re: [mv] Repost: Puzzled by runaway perl process

[Brian Knotts <bknotts@europa.com>]

Thanks. I'll look into that. I should have added that I'm using MySQL for most
of my tables.

On 19-Nov-99 Brian T. Allen wrote:
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> Is it possible you accidentally created a runaway loop somewhere in one of
> your pages?  I know searching the flat files creates a spike in CPU usage
> and if something like that got away it could certainly cause that,
> especially if it started more than once because of multiple users.
> 
> I would run top and find out how long it has been crunching and then check
> your logs for what pages were accessed about that time and see what page or
> script may be causing it.
> 
> This is an arguably educated guess, hope it helps.
> 
> Brian Allen
> 
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>>
>> (Reposted without PGP signature because some people are having trouble
> with my
>> PGP signature)
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>> Recently, my minivend installation has started having a strange problem.
>> minivend stops responding; load goes up to around 1.00 and stays there.
> There
>> is always a hung perl process that is using ~97% CPU. Error and web server
> logs
>> reveal nothing of interest; I haven't found any pattern to this.
>>
>> In order to recover, I have to stop minivend, kill -9 all perl processes,
> and
>> then restart minivend.
>>
>> Does this sound familiar to anyone else? This has just started happening
> to me
>> in the past few weeks. I have four fairly low-volume sites on this
> machine.
>>
>> The minivend box is a Linux box, running kernel 2.2.13.
>>
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