Re: [monit] Stuck processes?

[Stan Kaufman]

Martin Pala wrote:
> Monit 5.0 solves race conditions on start, which may solve your 
> problem. You get get monit 5.0 beta here:
> http://ww.tildeslash.com/monit/dist/beta/

Martin,

Monit 5.0 appears to have solved the unpredictable results restarting 
ar_sendmail -- to the extent that a week's follow-up can assess an 
unpredictable problem. However, so far there are no orphaned ar_sendmail 
processes now when monit restarts it.

Huzzah, and thanks for a great product!

Stan

> If it won't solve the problem, run monit with -v option and provide 
> the log output for the problematic time frame.
>
> Thanks,
> Martin
>
> On Sep 24, 2008, at 6:58 PM, Ramon Miguel M. Tayag wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
> >
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