Hi All -
I've built and installed the latest version of wu-ftpd (v2.6.2(1)) and it
works OK but several times now I've one or two rogue in.ftpd processes
left running that eat up all of the available CPU between them. In fact,
as I type this there are 6 of them, all in 'run' state, all chewing up
99% of the CPU time berween them...
I can't kill the processes without rebooting the machine, they won't die
even if I kill the parent inetd process.
One of our related sites at Edinburgh Observatory has reported similar
behaviour and goes on to say "We have that with wu-2.6.2(1) on Tru64 (V5.1
732 alpha). The one instance we know about, the client was Internet
Explorer and the transaction was aborted by the user. I think there is
also a problem with the Tru64 vendor ftp client. If the user aborts the
transaction or the server stops responding altogether, the client process
becomes unkillable. Can't remember whether it eats CPU time, but I think
not."
Anyone else seen this ? (It's on a Tru64 v5.1 AlphaStation 500/500). More
to the point, is there a fix without having to reboot ?
FWIW, the wu-ftpd-2.6.1-20 kit on Red Hat Linux v7.2 doesn't reproduce the
problem...
cheers,
john
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