From cbf9ccf062cdbcc3cc98ddf3ca21edd21998566c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Unbit <info@unbit.it>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 12:03:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] more brutal heartbeat emperor management

---
 core/emperor.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/core/emperor.c b/core/emperor.c
index 004da0dc..596ca8a5 100644
--- a/core/emperor.c
+++ b/core/emperor.c
@@ -1521,10 +1521,14 @@ void emperor_loop() {
 		while (ui_current) {
 			if (ui_current->last_heartbeat > 0) {
 				if ((ui_current->last_heartbeat + uwsgi.emperor_heartbeat) < uwsgi_now()) {
-					uwsgi_log("[emperor] vassal %s sent no heartbeat in last %d seconds, respawning it...\n", ui_current->name, uwsgi.emperor_heartbeat);
+					uwsgi_log("[emperor] vassal %s sent no heartbeat in last %d seconds, brutally respawning it...\n", ui_current->name, uwsgi.emperor_heartbeat);
 					// set last_heartbeat to 0 avoiding races
 					ui_current->last_heartbeat = 0;
-					emperor_respawn(ui_current, uwsgi_now());
+					if (ui_current->pid > 0) {
+						if (kill(ui_current->pid, SIGKILL)) {
+							uwsgi_error("[emperor] kill()");
+						}
+					}
 				}
 			}
 			ui_current = ui_current->ui_next;