Nginx old worker process not exiting on reload

Sharan J jsharan15 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 8 05:34:52 UTC 2016


Hi,

Is there a way to prevent this? Is there any other way to kill such process
without the need for rebooting the machine.

Thanks,
Santhakumari

On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 4:35 PM, Philip Walenta <philip.walenta at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The only thing I ever experienced that would hold an old worker process
> open after a restart (in my case config reload) were websocket connections.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Oct 5, 2016, at 5:59 AM, Sharan J <jsharan15 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > While reloading nginx, sometimes old worker process are not exiting
> thereby, entering into "uninterrupted sleep" state. Is there a way to kill
> such abandoned worker process? How can this process be avoided?
> > We are using nginx-1.10.1
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Santhakumari.V
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