[ic] Lingering interchange processes + too many open files

[John1]

On Saturday, March 20, 2004 10:24 PM, mike at perusion.com wrote:

>>>> If I stop the interchange server with:
>>>>
>>>> su -c "/opt/interchange/bin/interchange -stop" - interch
>>>>
>>>> a number of interchange processes still remain, i.e. "ps -aux|grep
>>>> interchange" still lists some interchange processes which I then
>>>> have to kill off with "killall -9 interchange"
>>>>
>>>> What might be causing these lingering processes (which it seems can
>>>> either be dead, sleeping or running)??
>>>>
>>> BTW, I am running IC 5.0.0 in RPC mode.  I think the problem
>>> started after switching from using low-traffic mode to RPC mode.
>>>
>>> I am not sure, but it is possible that the lingering processes
>>> accumulate as a result of issuing repeated restarts, i.e.
>>>
>>> su -c "/opt/interchange/bin/interchange -r" - interch
>>>
>
> I committed a patch to CVS (5.1) last week or so. It adds a directive
> "ChildLife" which limits the length of a page server to a certain
> time. I have been running
>
> ChildLife 30 minutes
>
> with good success for the past couple of weeks.
>
Just a quick note to say thanks Mike - I have only just had chance to
download 5.1, and "ChildLife 30 minutes" is working a treat :-)