Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] FYI: git was not responding: fixed

[Michael J. Flickinger]

On 12/2/11 8:13 PM, Michael J. Flickinger wrote:
> On 12/2/11 4:54 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > About an hour ago, for more than 20 minutes,
> > git.sv.gnu.org's git server was dead.
> >
> > A restart attempt failed:
> >
> > $ service xinetd restart
> > Stopping internet superserver: xinetd.
> > Starting internet superserver: xinetd failed!
> >
> > Logs gave no indication of why it failed.
> > A little later I tried a simple "start", and that worked. Go figure.
> >
> > $ service xinetd start
> > Starting internet superserver: xinetd.
>
> This has happened before when a bunch of stale git processes piled up.
> Did you check how many git processes, via xinetd, were running?

Further explanation:

In "/etc/xinetd.d/git" we limit the amount of instances to 40--to avoid 
thousands of git processes straining the server.

From time to time, stale ones accrue... When we get to 40 of them, 
xinetd won't spawn new git processes.

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Michael J. Flickinger