DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL, BUT PLEASE POST YOUR BUG RELATED COMMENTS THROUGH THE WEB INTERFACE AVAILABLE AT <http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17717>. ANY REPLY MADE TO THIS MESSAGE WILL NOT BE COLLECTED AND INSERTED IN THE BUG DATABASE.
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17717 Zombie/Waiting states OpenBSD ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-09-10 09:26 ------- Hello again ;-) After some tests my student found the reason for our problem. He wants to stay anonymous, that's the reason I post this. Here we go: ======================================================================= I think the problem is IPv6 related. I didn't get zombies anymore after deactivating listening on IPv6 sockets. I was able to reproduce the problem on another computer with a fresh OpenBSD 3.5 installation. I built apache 2.0.50 from source (configure ; make; make install) without any options. It served the default website - no dynamic content. The computers I tested this on were x86's. A Athlon XP and a Pentium 3. Here are some observations I made in the logfiles (I set the LogLevel to debug): In the error log I have this message about once a second: [warn] (22)Invalid argument: connect to listener It's not there, when I start apache. It starts some time later. I could force getting this error message by making 10-15 parallel connections. When I do this I get: [info] server seems busy, (you may need to increase StartServers, or Min/MaxSpareServers), spawning 8 children, there are 0 idle, and 12 total children and some seconds later the "connect to listener" error messages start. Then, some hours/days later, this error messages stop again. I think it happens when the server doesn't get any request for some hours. In most of the cases the zombies start coming then: When the server gets a request it is processed correctly and logged in the access_log, but after serving the request the child, which served the request becomes a zombie. At some point every child has become a zombie and apache doesn't answer to requests anymore. After a "apachectl restart" everything works again. Although I set the LogLevel to debug, there are no more messages in the error_log(except at startup) than the ones mentioned above. I hope this will help a developer to fix the problem. If you need any additional information, feel free to contact me. ===================================================================== I hope this will help others as well Best Regards, Joachim --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
