>Number: 607 >Category: general >Synopsis: CGI processes that run certain outside programs hang >indefinately >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: apache (Apache HTTP Project) >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: apache >Arrival-Date: Thu May 22 15:10:00 1997 >Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Organization: apache >Release: 1.2b10 IRIX >Environment: IRIX 5.3 IP22 mips >Description: when certain process as run via `` in perl5.003 scripts, the first couple instances will run, but the rest will hang until the server timeout.
A specific example is a program called image alchemy running under the environment above. calling successive instances of this program with backticks(``) works fine under 1.1.1 but fails under all 1.2 betas I've tried (b4-10). >How-To-Repeat: unfortunately my script only runs inside my company's firewall :( >Fix: I haven't found any workarounds and there is nothing in the error or cgi logs. Could I be running into resource limits?? (These processes are very CPU and memory intense). %0 >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
