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http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14604

Log file piped to a process causes threads to lock

           Summary: Log file piped to a process causes threads to lock
           Product: Apache httpd-2.0
           Version: 2.0.43
          Platform: Sun
               URL: http://www.california.com/
        OS/Version: Solaris
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Minor
          Priority: Other
         Component: Core
        AssignedTo: [email protected]
        ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


Compiled Apache using Prefork, Worker and threadpool to test this on various 
implementations of the thread schemes, and all three had the same problem.  
Writing to the log file becomes blocking somewhere in the code, and all the 
processes were sleeping on the Write command to the log file descriptor if the 
web server was hit with heavy load.  Apache 1.3.7 seems to work fine with this 
scheme, though notably, has the other piped logfile issue.  (Search for "Pipe 
Log")

I'm still investigating whether this was the logging process that was blocking, 
but considering the program works fine with apache 1.3.7, I think this maybe a 
threading issue.  Reguardless, if the process is actually stopping input, 
Apache should start discarding log file lines after a preset amount of time 
anyway to prevent degredation of the server.

The fix of course?  Use flat log files instead of logging to a process.

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