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

[Michael J. Flickinger]

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?

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Michael J. Flickinger