On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Geoffrey Young wrote:
> > I am getting "Apache->read timed out messages in my
> > error_log,now i have been looking at this problem for a while
> > now before posting it for help, whats happening is if i test
> > my application from within the network , because the
> > connection being very fast i am not having any problems , but
> > when i try to do the same thing from the external network
> > over a dial up line i get this error message in the error
> > logs and the script gets killed
I had this problem and it drove me completely nuts until I figured it out.
In my case, in a front-end-proxy/back-end-mod_perl configuration it turned
out to be having a lower timeout value for the back-end Apaches than for
the front-end Apaches.
I had set it this way to try and free up back-end servers (which are more
valuable than front-end servers) more quickly in the event of a timeout.
It didn't work out that way! :-) I now run 300 seconds on the front-ends
and 400 on the back-ends, and Apache->read timeouts no longer cause
problems.
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