No fork bomb. Just sometimes one of the children decides to loop forever somewhere...
perl -e 'use MIME::Base64; print decode_base64("4pmsIE5ldmVyIGdvbm5hIGdpdmUgeW91IHVwCiAgTmV2ZXIgZ29ubmEgbGV0IHlvdSBkb3duLi4uIOKZqwo=");'
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Include the PID and workload information (request url, rpc method name, queue item details, etc) in your logs along with start/end timestamps for processing the work.
You can then look up the PID in the logs and find out what that pesky pegged worker is up to.
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