>I've been running CFMX on Red Hat Linux 7.3 since last May. Everything
>was running fine until a few weeks ago when I ran a small security
>patch for Apache to bring it to version 1.3.27-4, and then everything
>went haywire. Now, CF will cease processing (but not actually crash, or
>report any errors) at random times, almost always when I'm NOT at work
>(usually around 5 am, sometimes at 8 am, but there's no specific time
>or interval.) This is obviously unacceptable, and has caused us great
>stress and a lot of lost confidence from our clients. There's a lot of
>talk out there about how CF isn't stable on Linux, especially Apache
>1.3. I've got the latest versions of everything, and the only other
>change that's happened is we've gotten more traffic than we had before,
>due to a large client we're now hosting, but certainly not enough
>traffic to bring a server down. Coldfusion is supposed to be scalable,
>and the 6.1 update was supposed to fix a lot of stability issues, but
>if this keeps up we'll have to dump it, or worse ... go back to
>Windows.
>
>Is there anyone else that has had problems similar to what I've
>described? Any solutions? I also have problems sometimes with Apache
>not being able to kill its child processes, which is supposed to be an
>SSL problem. I ALSO have issues with the 2.4 kernel and modprobe taking
>up 99% of my CPU! Can anyone recommend a good consultant with Linux,
>CF, and Plesk (server administrator tools) experience?
>

Is upgrading to Apache 2.0.4x an option? We use several MX/JRun
installations on RH Linux 7.2, 7.3, as well as Solaris 8 and 9 boxes all
with Apache 2.0.4x and have not run into any problems whatsoever.

Regards,
Dave.
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