I am setting up Apache::Watchdog::RunAway and have come across a problem with Apache::Scoreboard that breaks Watchdog. The broken thing is access_count which is always 0 (my $count = $process->my_access_count;). This causes process running time to continue to increase until the Apache::Watchdog::RunAway timeout is reached and the process is marked as hung and killed. Sample debug output from Watchdog: OK 3 25345 W 0 30 0 OK 8 25383 W 0 24 0 OK 7 25411 W 0 18 0 OK 11 25421 W 0 15 0 OK 2 25408 W 0 3 0 OK 2 25408 W 0 6 0 OK 3 25345 W 0 33 0 [Tue Oct 31 11:37:11 2000] Apache::Watchdog::RunAway: child proc 25345 seems to hang -- it is running longer than limit of 30 secs ($Apache::Watchdog::RunAway::TIMEOUT). Killing proc 25345. OK 7 25411 W 0 21 0 OK 11 25421 W 0 18 0 >From conversations with the author of Watchdog an example of correct output: OK 2 13377 W 2 0 1 OK 0 13374 W 8 0 7 OK 2 13377 W 3 0 2 OK 0 13374 W 9 0 8 OK 2 13377 W 4 0 3 OK 2 13377 W 5 0 4 ------------------ col 1 2 3 4 5 6 See the columns above: column 5 is the time the process is running, column 4 is the count of requests served by the child and col6 is the last request served. So the killing rule triggers when: col 4 and 6 has the same value and col 5 is bigger than TIMEOUT value. Finally here is some info on the environment this is running under. Output from perl-status: Embedded Perl version 5.00503 for Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) AuthMySQL/2.20 mod_perl/1.24 PHP/3.0.16 mod_ssl/2.6.4 OpenSSL/0.9.5a process 16288, running since Tue Oct 31 16:34:26 2000 Everything is compiled from tar balls on a RH 6.2 base install. Below are my compile time options for apache and mod_perl: Apache compile time options: SL_BASE=SYSTEM \ EAPI_MM=SYSTEM \ CC="egcs" \ OPTIM="-O9 -funroll-loops -ffast-math -malign-double -mcpu=pentiumpro -march=pentiumpro -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-exceptions" \ CFLAGS="-DDYNAMIC_MODULE_LIMIT=0 -DSINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT -DBUFFERED_LOGS" \ ./configure \ --with-layout=GNU \ --add-module=src/modules/experimental/mod_mmap_static.c \ --add-module=src/modules/standard/mod_auth_dbm.c \ --enable-module=ssl \ --enable-rule=SSL_SDBM \ --disable-rule=SSL_COMPAT \ --activate-module=src/modules/php3/libphp3.a \ --enable-module=php3 \ --activate-module=src/modules/perl/libperl.a \ --enable-module=perl \ --activate-module=src/modules/auth_mysql/libauth_mysql.a \ --disable-module=negotiation \ --disable-module=autoindex \ --disable-module=asis \ --disable-module=imap mod_perl compile time options: EVERYTHING=1 \ APACHE_SRC=../apache-1.3.12/src \ USE_APACI=1 \ PREP_HTTPD=1 \ DO_HTTPD=1 Thanks again for the help. Jayme Frye Senior System Administrator Inventive Comm. [EMAIL PROTECTED]