Bug 54276

Summary:	rotatelogs not getting killed on graceful restart
Product:	Apache httpd-2	Reporter:	ckbugs
Component:	support	Assignee:	Apache HTTPD Bugs Mailing List <bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED LATER
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	MassUpdate
Priority:	P2
Version:	2.2.23
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux

Description ckbugs 2012-12-10 21:37:56 UTC

There seems to be a problem with graceful restarts and piped logging using rotatelogs and long running requests.

Rotatelogs sometimes does not get killed and "dead" rotatelogs processes add up as you do further graceful restarts.

Should be easy to reproduce:

1. setup your apache using rotatelogs for request logging + enable keepalive
2. do sth like while true; do apachectl graceful; done
3. use apachebench with keepalive enabled so generate some requests
4. watch number of rotatelogs processes

There already was a similar bug (https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26467). Maybe it's a regression?

Comment 1 William A. Rowe Jr. 2018-11-07 21:08:58 UTC

Please help us to refine our list of open and current defects; this is a mass update of old and inactive Bugzilla reports which reflect user error, already resolved defects, and still-existing defects in httpd.

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