The following reply was made to PR general/1680; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Marc Slemko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Morgan Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: general/1680: Critically anomalous behavior when upgrading from 1.3a1 to 1.3b3 Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 14:38:20 -0700 (MST) On 15 Jan 1998, Morgan Davis wrote: > Compiled 1.3b3 from official sources with the no2slash patch, > and compiler options and modules identical to the 1.3a1 previously > built on the same server (same OS version). Runs fine while load > is light. But under load (approx. 100 virtual hosts taking about > 700 cumulative hits a minute), the parent and most children will > suddenly die off, with a single child remaining as a zombie. > Subsequent attempts to restart httpd fail since Port 80 is already > bound by the zombie child. Prior to the collapse, odd behavior is > noticed, such as references to a particular virtual host end up > bringing up a totally different virtual host site, or there is a > failure to connect at all. A reboot is necessary to get the server > back up, but will eventually collapse again with exact same state. > No core file to be found. Are you using NFS? Are you using more than one Listen directive?
