On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Honza Pazdziora wrote:
> The machines are alright memorywise, they seem to be a bit slow on
> CPU, however what bothers me is the deadlock situation to which they
> get. No more slow crunching, they just stop accepting connections.
I've only seen that happen when something was hanging them up, like
running out of memory or waiting for a database resource. Are you using
NFS by any chance?
> Is there a way to allow a lot of children to be spawned but limit
> the number of children that serve requests?
I don't think you want that. If the server is busy, Apache will spawn
more as soon as it can. Of course PerlRunOnce is a huge
liability. Getting rid of that would surely help a lot.
- Perrin
