Re: Occasional public-inbox-httpd flakiness

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> writes:

> Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> wrote:
>> Just to add a data point...the problem just recurred, and there are
>> definitely cat-file processes running:
>> 
>> $  ps ax | fgrep git
>> 2640024 ?        S      0:40 /usr/bin/git --git-dir=repos/ALL.git -c core.abbrev=40 cat-file --batch
>> 2735080 ?        S      0:18 /usr/bin/git --git-dir=repos/ALL.git -c core.abbrev=40 cat-file --batch
>> 3184082 ?        S      0:03 /usr/bin/git --git-dir=repos/ALL.git -c core.abbrev=40 cat-file --batch
>> 3723223 ?        Z      0:00 [git] <defunct>
>> 3723227 ?        Z      0:00 [git] <defunct>
>  
> Can you see if the worker process causing warnings is connected to defunct gits?
> Should've been fixed in master a while ago, but there's a lot of changes :x
> master should be fine as long as you're not using -cindex + coderepos yet.

By "connected to" you mean "is the parent of"?

I've long since restarted things - the LWN show must go on - but can
certainly look for that the next time around.

Thanks,

jon