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My mongrels were not responding, and neither god restart nor cluster restart made a big difference. I dug a little deeper, than i realized that i had plenty of zombie processes.
app 29607 27948 0 19:45 ? 00:00:00 [mongrel_rails] app 30578 21681 0 19:52 ? 00:00:00 [mongrel_rails] app 30704 21405 0 19:53 ? 00:00:00 [mongrel_rails]
However, after i killed the parent processes using this:
"ps -ef | grep defunct | grep -v grep | awk {print $3} | xargs kill -9"
The restarts began working. Did my killing of the zombies help the restarts work? If so, it is weird, because i cannot find any references that explains how defunct processes affect normal ones