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  • From: "Tony Spencer" <tony AT tonyspencer.com>
  • To: "'Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/'" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [internetworkers] httpd <defunct>
  • Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 10:21:51 -0400

Problem solved.
After checking Apache error logs I noticed lots of these lines:

[Sun May 16 22:48:52 2004] [notice] child pid 1211 exit signal File size
limit exceeded (25)

I had forgot to implement some access log rotation and my log file had hit
the 2GB limit.
Deleted the file, setup log rotation, restarted Apache, and the "defunct"
processes didn't return.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf
> Of Tony Spencer
> Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 8:57 AM
> To: 'Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/'
> Subject: [internetworkers] httpd <defunct>
>
> Does anyone have any experience with Apache processes
> appearing as 'defunct'?
>
> -bash-2.05b$ ps -ef | grep httpd
> nobody 31100 29250 0 07:50 ? 00:00:00
> /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd
> -DSSL
> nobody 31355 29250 1 07:51 ? 00:00:00 [httpd <defunct>]
> nobody 31356 29250 0 07:51 ? 00:00:00 [httpd <defunct>]
> nobody 31357 29250 0 07:51 ? 00:00:00 [httpd <defunct>]
> nobody 31358 29250 0 07:51 ? 00:00:00 [httpd <defunct>]
> nobody 31359 29250 0 07:51 ? 00:00:00 [httpd <defunct>]
> nobody 31360 29250 0 07:51 ? 00:00:00 [httpd <defunct>]
> nobody 31361 29250 0 07:51 ? 00:00:00 [httpd <defunct>]
>
> I did some Googling. I found everything from "its no big
> deal and it will go away" to "it's DDOS attacks".
>
> I tried restarting Apache and they didn't go away.
>
>
>
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