Bah, this turned out to be a bad piece of code in one of the extensions. It was supposed to spawn one set of 5 threads for processing. Except, it's spawning 5 threads on every request! I was needlessly blaming mod_wsgi when it was actually the code.
Regards Nigel On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 8:48 AM, Nigel Babu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > > > I'm running CKAN[1] under mod_wsgi for a particular site. This server has > recently been alerting because it has more than 4000 running processes. > When I looked into it, almost all the new ones were from mod_wsgi process. > Restarting the server cleared out all the processes. The number of > processes go back up quite soon (56 processes in about 20 minutes). > > I found this thread[2] but I don't have any specific C extensions for this > site in particular. We use a standard Apache config everywhere and I've not > noticed this in the past for any other site. Any thoughts on what I should > be thinking of that I haven't yet? > > [1] https://github.com/ckan/ckan > [2] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/modwsgi/FdYTYDAkMHU > > Nigel. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "modwsgi" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/modwsgi. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "modwsgi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/modwsgi. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
