Re: [monit] Stuck processes?

[Ramon Miguel M. Tayag]

I should give 5.x a try.  I'm on 4.10.1 :)

Ramon Tayag

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 1:17 AM, Stan Kaufman <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> I've got no answer but can confirm some oddness here.
>
> I've noticed that sometimes when monit restarts a group (of mongrels plus a
> separate ar_sendmail process) during a capistrano deploy of a Rails app, the
> ar_sendmail process gets restarted but the old one isn't terminated -- so
> that there are now two ar_sendmail processes. This happens only about 1/4 to
> 1/2 of the time. I usually just kill the obsolete process. The mongrels
> themselves restart fine.
>
> This appears to be more of a nuisance than a real problem, but I do wonder
> why the inconsistent results. I've presumed it's due to something strange
> with ar_sendmail, which has to be modded to work with monit:
> http://www.lukeludwig.com/blog/articles/2007/12/05/running-ar_sendmail-with-monit
>
> This is with monit 4.10.1. Does monit 5.x change something that might fix
> this?
>
> Weird....