Thanks for the suggestions. I should have mentionned that the machine has dual Xeon processors and 2Gb of RAM. Running top shows a ridiculously low load average. This server runs only 2 sites, both with the same Apache and mod_perl versions, but different installs. Strangely enough the other site has never shown that error. The only obvious difference between the 2 sites is that the one with the trouble is being accessed by a much larger number of simultaneous users, although 90 users can hardly qualify as heavy load (or am I wrong?).
Also the last occurences of this error pointed to a place in the Perl script that is very plain, just a variable assignment. It seemed to have just died at that point. The puzzling thing is that it did that about a dozen times for different users at exactly the same spot. (I know this is not a Perl list, my point is that I don't believe there is an error in the script itself that would cause this.) Anyway I will follow your leads and try and check the response time. Jerome ---- Original message ---- >Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:50:28 -0400 >From: Perrin Harkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: ModPerl::Registry error: 103 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: Modperl List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 12:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I keep on getting this same error in the logs: >> ModPerl::Registry: 103:Software caused connection abort at >> /path/to/script line number > >I believe that comes from a system call, not from mod_perl or apache >itself. > >> My suspicion is that the school's network might not be able to >> handle the load, and that the connection times out at some >> point, hence the error message. > >That sounds reasonable. You might want to see how long your server is >taking to handle requests (mod_stopwatch maybe or a mod_perl handler) >and check how saturated your network interface is. How is the load on >the server? Does it have plenty of free memory and CPU? > >- Perrin > > >-- >Report problems: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ >Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html >List etiquette: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/email-etiquette.html > -- Report problems: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html List etiquette: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/email-etiquette.html
