defunkt/resque — Issue #490: USR1 did not perform a kill tree action?
Author: stcatz
Created: 2012-01-11 02:20:54+00:00
State: open

I use god to monitor resque worker. When found a worker is at work for too long time, send a USR1 to it.

The problem is my job is actually a script which will fork its own child, but resque worker process will only kill its immediate child. It left lots of zombie processes in my system.