[monit] Stuck processes?

[Ramon Miguel M. Tayag]

Hey everyone,

Is there such a thing as a stuck process?  I'm new to administration
so let me describe what happened:

I had 3 processes runnign for about 4 days, then I uploaded new code
via capistrano.  Capistrano tells monit to restart the 3 processes,
but they all said execution failed.  So I logged into the server and
saw the processes were still running.  That means they were never
killed.

So I kill them manually (using the same commands in the monit config
file), and then get monit to run them, and it's able to start it.  I
then tested monit, and restarted the processes one by one (all via
monit).  They were able to restart fine.

I also did a restart from Capistrano and it restarted fine.

Would you guys know what the problem might be?

Thank you,
Ramon Tayag