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

[Jim Meyering]

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?

I seem to recall there being many (could have been 40) but didn't count.