The following reply was made to PR general/3046; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miles O'Neal)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc Slemko)
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: general/3046: Apache letting child processes run too long
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 11:41:08 -0500 (CDT)
Marc Slemko said...
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|That's all very nice, but just because it runs other things fine doesn't
|mean it will run everything fine...
Duh. My point was that it's not a piece of useless crap as
your email implied.
|It obviously doensn't run fine since you are complaining it doesn't. We
|have had to track down OS bugs over and over due to people using old
|versions of the OS, compiler, etc. and we just don't have the resources to
|do so when it doesn't impact the vast majority of users.
How do you know who it impacts? Maybe nobody noticed it.
It's non-critical, so the impact is minimal. If you don't
want to work on it, just say so.
All I'm asking is that you *look* at the problem instead of just
assuming* it isn't an Apache bug. I make no such assumptions,
and if it's my system, fine.
I have similar behavior at work, on a FreeBSD system, where I have:
MaxRequestsPerChild 100
and it kills the child and forks a new one at 30 or 31 (granted,
it's still using Apache 1.2.5, but it's a similar problem).
|Erm... this is not the output of the status page. This is parsed by
|something.
Wrong. The default status page outputs TABLE tags. Cutting
and pasting TABLE output (at least from my version of Navigator
into vi) results in unusable formatting. So I used the "notable"
option to the status module. It's a *standard* part of the
status module.
Try it: /status?notable .
|Does this happen with a base Apache without any extra modules or
|modificatoins?
That's what I'm using. If I'd had extra modules or hacks, I'd have
said so where it asked on the bugs form.
|I'm not sure what you are talking about with "kill the child" number.
The number of accesses per child, after which it *really* kills the child
and forks a new process, instead of the number set in the config file.
-Miles
