On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Tom Lancaster wrote:
> Hi,
> I've got this strange behavior in a production site that until a recent
> upgrade never showed this kind of thing:
> I've set maxclients to 50, maxrequestsperchild 1.
> What happens is that the server runs fine, is fast, etc, but the number
> of apache processes climbs gradually until it reaches ~maxclients, then
> will no longer serve pages.
> I thought this was due to children not exiting, but some of them
> apparently do, as the number of processes rises and falls on its way to
> the top.
>
> What is Apache supposed to do when you set maxrequestsperchild to 1?
> I'd have thought each process would exit immediatley after serving
> something.
> I'm inclined to think there's something in my code that's hanging, but I
> read that the symptom of that is processes consuming large amounts of
> CPU - they're not, and memory usage is normal, too (~10M).
>
> Another symptom: sometimes when the processes are nearing the top,
> they'll start haging, but one by one; if I hit stop on a non-responsive
> request, then re-try, it serves fine.
>
> I'm using the debian package of modperl 1.21 statically linked with
> apache 1.3.9, and HTML::Embperl 1.2.1 ( I think).
>
>
> Any insight greatly appreciated.
>
> Tom
>
try this:
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 12:13:20 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug MacEachern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Roberto Bourgonjen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: httpd exits with apache-1.3.12 and mod_perl-1.21 on Redhat
6.2
On Wed, 24 May 2000, Roberto Bourgonjen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am encountering strange problems on redhat 6.2 installations with
> rpm's apache-1.3.12-2 and mod_perl-1.21-10 (the latest available
> versions from redhat. I _have_ to use rpm's). I've tried two machines.
>
> As soon as load certain modules the server exits immediately, without
> producing the slightest error message.
try this:
% gdb httpd
(gdb) b exit
(gdb) run -X
whether it core dumps or exit() is called, post the output of:
(gdb) bt
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