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stale cgi process entries

           Summary: stale cgi process entries
           Product: Apache httpd-2.0
           Version: 2.0.39
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: FreeBSD
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Critical
          Priority: Other
         Component: All
        AssignedTo: bugs@httpd.apache.org
        ReportedBy: abatko@cs.mcgill.ca


We recently discovered hundreds of stale process entries
in the process table, and they were all cgi programs.

We're running 2.0.39 with suexec.

It seems that EVERY cgi program that's run leaves behind
a process entry.

Below is an example just for one user (abatko):

% ps auxwwww | sort | grep ^abatko | wc -l
     412

# now run a cgi program

% ps auxwwww  | sort | grep ^abatko | wc -l
     413

# now stop/start apache

% apachectl stop
% apachectl start

% ps auxwwww  | sort | grep ^abatko | wc -l
       0

# now run a cgi program

% ps auxwwww  | sort | grep ^abatko | wc -l
       1

# now run another cgi program

% ps auxwwww  | sort | grep ^abatko | wc -l
       2


Here's an example of what the process table looks like
for the two cgi programs run above:

USER      PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS  TT  STAT STARTED      TIME COMMAND
abatko  26979  0.0  0.0     0    0  ??  Z    10:18AM   0:00.00  (perl)
abatko  26987  0.0  0.0     0    0  ??  Z    10:18AM   0:00.00  (c.cgi)


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