Synopsis: Runaway httpd process under heavy load State-Changed-From-To: open-analyzed State-Changed-By: dgaudet State-Changed-When: Fri Sep 12 22:33:39 PDT 1997 State-Changed-Why: Yeah this is a sensable way to defend against this problem. It's odd though, my development platform is an SMP davem-2.0.31-pre2 kernel ... and I've pushed it up over 700 req/s, and never seen this. But we've had a dozen reports about it, so we should work around it. I've submitted a patch for consideration.
Dean