config/8259: child process did not exit

[guna <sa...@satyam-infoway.com>]

>Number:         8259
>Category:       config
>Synopsis:       child process did not exit
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Aug 28 21:30:00 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     samuel_gunasundari@satyam-infoway.com
>Release:        1.3.12
>Organization:
apache
>Environment:
output of uname -a
Linux web1.maa.sify.net 2.2.16-22smp #1 SMP Tue Aug 22 16:39:21 EDT 2000 i686 unknown
>Description:
Below is the error log generated: 

[Wed Aug 29 09:40:03 2001] [warn] child process 23902 did not exit, sending another SIGHUP
[Wed Aug 29 09:40:03 2001] [warn] child process 23903 did not exit, sending another SIGHUP
[Wed Aug 29 09:40:03 2001] [warn] child process 23904 did not exit, sending another SIGHUP
[Wed Aug 29 09:40:03 2001] [warn] child process 23905 did not exit, sending another SIGHUP
[Wed Aug 29 09:40:03 2001] [warn] child process 24085 did not exit, sending another SIGHUP
[Wed Aug 29 09:40:03 2001] [notice] SIGHUP received.  Attempting to restart
[Wed Aug 29 09:40:08 2001] [notice] Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) PHP/4.0.5-dev configured -- resuming normal operations

The site has been configured to accept maxclients limit to 256
 and MaxRequestsPerChild 10000
We have tried recompiling apache also !.
The HARD SERVER LIMIT has also been set to 1024.

Still the child process spawned are not getting killed.
This is pulling down the sites performance. The no of hits is higher for this site.

Can u pls help me out in this?

Thanks.



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