when a child wont exit on its own, the timer gets way too large when trying to kill the child process, I had a log showing a process that wouldnt exit, and httpd decided that it had to kill it, and it sent the signal to kill the child then waited about 16 minutes till it checked if the process died... [Tue Jul 09 08:51:17 2002] [warn] child process 6668 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM [Tue Jul 09 08:51:34 2002] [warn] child process 6668 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM [Tue Jul 09 08:52:41 2002] [warn] child process 6668 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM [Tue Jul 09 08:57:09 2002] [error] child process 6668 still did not exit, sending a SIGKILL the apache server did not process anymore requests till this finished (about 24 minutes after it started to kill the process)
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[This is a mass bug update.] [Resolve-20021102] No response from submitter; assuming issue is resolved. If the problem still exists in the lastest version, please reopen this report and update appropriately.