Causing a process switch to test a theory.
Steve Watt
steve at Watt.COM
Mon Mar 21 09:32:58 PST 2005
On Mar 21, 10:05, Matthew Hagerty wrote:
} Steve Watt wrote:
} >In <423DE326.9000203 at digitalstratum.com>,
} > matthew at digitalstratum.com wrote:
} >That's another layer of indirection, though. If all of the children
} >have separate pipes to the parent, and then the parent logs to your
} >program, all should be fine.
}
} That's an interesting idea about each child having a pipe open back to
} the parent, but I don't think that's what is happening. I'm pretty sure
} each child has the logging pipe open directly. Here is an fstat:
} There is a grouping like this for each Apache child process that's runing:
} genie httpd 61320 root / 2 drwxr-xr-x 512 r
} genie httpd 61320 wd / 2 drwxr-xr-x 512 r
} genie httpd 61320 text /usr 5110792 -rwxr-xr-x 9766440 r
} genie httpd 61320 0 /dev 8 crw-rw-rw- null r
} genie httpd 61320 1 /dev 8 crw-rw-rw- null w
} genie httpd 61320 2 /usr 5110968 -rw-r--r-- 494192 w
} genie httpd 61320 15 /usr 5110968 -rw-r--r-- 494192 w
} genie httpd 61320 16 /usr 5110969 -rw-r--r-- 451616 w
} genie httpd 61320 17 /usr 5110981 -rw-r--r-- 1056219 w
} genie httpd 61320 18 /usr 5111084 -rw-r--r-- 3886425 w
} genie httpd 61320 19* internet stream tcp c5d1e2d0
} genie httpd 61320 20 /usr 5111178 prw-rw-rw- 0 w
} genie httpd 61320 21 /usr 5111178 prw-rw-rw- 0 w
} genie httpd 61320 22 /usr 5111178 prw-rw-rw- 0 w
} genie httpd 61320 23 /usr 5111178 prw-rw-rw- 0 w
} genie httpd 61320 24 /usr 5110835 -rw-r--r-- 573236 w
}
} My pipe listener (fd 0), which each child has open 4 times on fd 20 - 23:
} root pglogd 519 root / 2 drwxr-xr-x 512 r
} root pglogd 519 wd / 2 drwxr-xr-x 512 r
} root pglogd 519 text /usr 8528219 -rwxr-xr-x 22793 r
} root pglogd 519 0 /usr 5111178 prw-rw-rw- 0 rw
} root pglogd 519 1 /usr 5111198 -rw-r--r-- 0 r
} root pglogd 519 2 /usr 5111198 -rw-r--r-- 0 w
} root pglogd 519 3* local stream c5dcb7a8 <-> c5dcb71c
There aren't any pipes in your fstat output, but if I look at
my currently running Apache, I see that there are pipes around, and
everyone's got the same ones (they're fds 5 and 6 with my config).
So yeah, I'd say that you've identified a problem, and it's some
combination of good luck that hasn't gotten someone tripped.
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