I've also seen this problem. Haven't had the time to find a "proper" solution. However I lowered the server timeout to around 15 seconds, not ideal but keeps the site going.
Hopefully someone has a better solution. Regards Matt --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > We have a problem with apache with the following > symptoms > > - the number of apache processes hits MaxClients > - the CPU on the box isn't doing much when we hit > the max number of apache > processes > - sometimes apache recovers after about 5 minutes > and we reduce to a more > typical number of processes > - other times apache has totally locked up an > required a restart > > We see no pattern as to when this is occuring. It > has occurred during quiet > periods and during periods of heavy load. > > We have upped the MaxClients to 256, but we hit that > level too. > > All our users connect over SSL. > > We have seen the following articles on the Microsoft > site that makes us think > that this could because of broken version of IE in > our user community. However, > we don't know from the articles the exact > combination of OS and IE that would > cause the problems and therefore haven't been able > to recreate in a test > environment. > > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=305217 > http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS04-004.mspx > > > We also get the following error in the SSL error > log: > > [Tue Oct 26 06:43:04 2004] [error] mod_ssl: SSL > handshake interrupted by system > [Hint: Stop button pressed in browser?!] (System > error follows) > [Tue Oct 26 06:43:04 2004] [error] System: > Connection timed out (errno: 145) > > We see this quite a lot during normal operation. > However, during the periods > were we hit the MaxClient processes, we see the > number of these errors increase > by an order of magnitude. > > Has anyone else seen similar problems and if so, > what was their solution? If > this is the problem described on the MS site, what > version of Windows and IE do > we need to recreate? Are there any server side only > solutions? > > We are running on Solaris with apache 1.2.26 and > mod_ssl 2.8.10 using a Sun > Crypto 1 SSL accelerator card. > > Any help greatly apprecicated. > > Cheers, > > Dave. > ______________________________________________________________________ > Apache Interface to OpenSSL (mod_ssl) > www.modssl.org > User Support Mailing List > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Automated List Manager > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com ______________________________________________________________________ Apache Interface to OpenSSL (mod_ssl) www.modssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
