-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 30 September 2004 19:48, Alex Greg wrote: > Thanks for your response. Sorry I wasn't clear; the httpd processes > don't actually kill the server, they just slow Apache right down to the > point at which it doesn't respond to requests any more. I am still able > to get onto the box and kill the processes etc. without having to do a > hard reboot or anything. My question is what's causing Apache to get > into the state where it can't fork any more shells from Perl.
Activate mod_status and look at it's output. I suspect you'll see a lot of W's, L's or C's. This can give you a hint what your server processes are doing. Torsten -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBXHvvwicyCTir8T4RApx3AJ4rG8aCbUPbI9rcotPK8E4ErrHH4QCcC/5j DnyF7Iq/iXtbWzIT8n7YITk= =NLCV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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
