Worker processes not shutting down

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 03:42:49PM -0500, runesoerensen wrote:

> Following an upgrade from nginx 1.0.2 to 1.0.11 I've experienced a
> problem with worker processes that are not shutting down. When looking
> in the list of running processes the worker processes appears to be
> shutting down but never actually exits.
> 
> I've been using the ubuntu nginx ppa's for maverick.
> 
> As the worker processes doesn't shut down nginx ends up consuming to
> much memory and is ultimately unable to spawn new worker processes.
> 
> Below is a list of processes showing the problem:
> 
> www-data   560  0.5  4.2 376376 321760 ?       S    20:04   0:07 nginx:
> worker process is shutting down
> www-data   562  0.1  4.2 376376 321720 ?       S    20:04   0:01 nginx:
> worker process is shutting down

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What does "nginx -V" show?  If there are any 3rd party 
modules/patches - do you see the same behaviour with vanilla 
nginx?

Maxim Dounin