[ic] Lingering interchange processes + too many open files

Tracy Nelson tracy at mainstreetmusic.com
Sun Mar 21 14:54:15 EST 2004


On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 13:24, Mike Heins wrote:
> Quoting Tracy Nelson (tracy at mainstreetmusic.com):
> > On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 11:43, John1 wrote:
> > > On Saturday, March 13, 2004 3:09 PM, list_subscriber at yahoo.co.uk 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)??
> > > >
> > > I posted the above last week - apologies for reposting if that is bad form,
> > > but I have been unable to find the reason for these lingering processes.
> > > 
> > > 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
> > > 
> > > Has anyone else experience this problem?  Any help would be greatly
> > > appreciated.
> > > 
> > 
> > I have also had the same experience, and would be very interested to see
> > if anyone has an answer.
> 
> 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.

Will this patch help to stop the page servers during an "interchange -r"
style restart?  As John initially wrote, we must presently kill off the
child processes manually before a new start will work correctly. 
Without the manual kill-off inet mode will not start.
-- 
Tracy Nelson <tracy at mainstreetmusic.com>
Main Street Music



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