Re: [mv] Repost: Puzzled by runaway perl process

["Brian T. Allen" <brian@purenetfx.com>]

Is it possible you accidentally created a runaway loop somewhere in one of
your pages?  I know searching the flat files creates a spike in CPU usage
and if something like that got away it could certainly cause that,
especially if it started more than once because of multiple users.

I would run top and find out how long it has been crunching and then check
your logs for what pages were accessed about that time and see what page or
script may be causing it.

This is an arguably educated guess, hope it helps.

Brian Allen


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> Recently, my minivend installation has started having a strange problem.
> minivend stops responding; load goes up to around 1.00 and stays there.
There
> is always a hung perl process that is using ~97% CPU. Error and web server
logs
> reveal nothing of interest; I haven't found any pattern to this.
>
> In order to recover, I have to stop minivend, kill -9 all perl processes,
and
> then restart minivend.
>
> Does this sound familiar to anyone else? This has just started happening
to me
> in the past few weeks. I have four fairly low-volume sites on this
machine.
>
> The minivend box is a Linux box, running kernel 2.2.13.
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