[geeks] Need expert opinion

[james]

On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 14:23, velociraptor wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 11:41:33 -0400 (EDT), Sandwich Maker
> <adh at an.bradford.ma.us> wrote:
> > " From: velociraptor <velociraptor at gmail.com>
> > "
> > " Anyone have any idea what might happen if two processes tried to
> > " HUP the same pid at the same time?
> > 
> > depends on whether the receiving proc resets its sighandler fast
> > enough to properly catch the second hup.  you'll either get the
> > intended response or [i think] termination.
> > 
> > " I had a situation where two scheduled cron processes were trying to
> > " HUP the same httpd when rolling the logs.  The cron entries were
> > " for the same times.  :-/
> > 
> > oopsie...
> 
> Hmmm...this is Solaris.  I was speculating on the cause of a
> huge decrease in traffic (24K hits/day to 4K hits/day across 4
> servers), but neither of those results would explain it.  If the 
> httpd died, a) the load balancers would ship it to the other 
> servers, and b) our alarm would go off.  Even if "b" failed, "a"
> would still happen.
> 
> I'm at a loss on the traffic decline...and with our clients, I can 
> forget "reasonability" [0].

What type of traffic are we talking about? Mail?