unkillable apache httpd process

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Jun 08), Jiawei Ye said:
> On 6/8/05, Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy at optushome.com.au> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-Jun-08 15:52:43 +0800, Jiawei Ye wrote:
> > >I have a problem with very recent -current. Apache2 when restarted via
> > >/usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache2.sh, the httpd process becomes unkillable
> > >and consumes quite some CPU cycles.
> > What does ps show?  For a process to be unkillable, it must be in
>   PID USERNAME     THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU COMMAND
>  3794 root           1  77    0  8008K  5572K RUN      0:03  2.29% httpd
> I think it's doing something but truss does not show what exactly it's
> doing. This is a P3-1.3G, terminal state of the httpd consumes about
> 10% in WCPU column.

If it's consuming CPU it should be killable.  Tried kill -9?  If it's
really threaded, "ps lHp 3794" will print what each kernel thread is
doing; maybe only one thread is hung.  

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	Dan Nelson
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