unable to kill process, problem with FBSD6?

[Stefan Lambrev]

Hello,

peceka wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I've got strange problem. I've setup pound on my FBSD6 box and
> sometimes it (pound) stops. Normally it should exit but it doesn't -
> it hangs.
>
> # ps auwx | grep pound
> pound   46868  0.0  1.0 55428 21932  ??  SE    1:58PM   0:31.34
> /usr/local/sbin/pound -f /usr/local/etc/pound.cfg
>
> S: Marks a process that is sleeping for less than about 20 seconds.
> E: The process is trying to exit.
>
> It dies after 30 minutes.
>
> This problem doesn't exists on Linux.
>
> This behaviour is very irregular.
> Why FBSD doesn't kill this process?
>
> Regards,
> p.
>   

I saw this before, and I think it's a thread related problem :)
Unfortunately it happens only in production and busy environment (?) and 
it is very hard to test/debug.
But putting in /etc/libmap.conf :

[/usr/local/sbin/pound]
libpthread.so.2        libthr.so.2
libpthread.so  libthr.so

may help.
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Best Wishes,
Stefan Lambrev
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