8.2 + apache == a LOT of sigprocmask
Doug Barton
dougb at FreeBSD.org
Mon Nov 14 20:51:36 UTC 2011
On 11/14/2011 12:31, Doug Barton wrote:
> Trying to track down a load problem we're seeing on 8.2-RELEASE-p4 i386
> in a busy web hosting environment I came across the following post:
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2011-October/234520.html
>
> That basically describes what we're seeing as well, including the
> "doesn't happen on Linux" part.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas about this?
>
> With incredibly similar stuff running on 7.x we didn't see this problem,
> so it seems to be something new in 8.
Just took a closer look at our ktrace, and actually our pattern is
slightly different than the one in that post. In ours the second option
is null, but the third is set:
74195 httpd 0.000017 RET sigprocmask 0
74195 httpd 0.000013 CALL sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK,0,0xbfbf89d4)
74195 httpd 0.000009 RET sigprocmask 0
74195 httpd 0.000013 CALL sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK,0,0xbfbf89d4)
74195 httpd 0.000009 RET sigprocmask 0
74195 httpd 0.000012 CALL sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK,0,0xbfbf89d4)
But repeated hundreds of times in a row.
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