What do you have maxrequestsperchild set to? If it is not zero, then I suspect the
problem is that
the main thread in the threaded child process can sometimes exit before the worker
threads. If you
take a look at threaded.c, you will see that the main child thread is turned into a
worker thread.
If it exits first (due to max requests per child processing), the other threads in the
process go
off into never-never land. Paul Reder has a fix to this problem but has not posted it
for some
reason (perhaps because the fix exposes another serious bug in the threaded MPM in
process_idle_server_maintenance?)
Paul?
Bill
> I use the following command on httpd I compiled with mpm=threaded
>
> ab -n 100000 -c 200 http://127.0.0.1/
>
> It did reasonably well and dropped only 6 requests out of all and
> performed better then if I used mpm=prefork. That's good. But when I do a
> ps aux | grep httpd I get the following.
>
> nobody 4521 0.0 0.0 0 0 pts/3 Z 18:03 0:00 [httpd <defunct>]
> nobody 4522 0.0 0.0 0 0 pts/3 Z 18:03 0:00 [httpd <defunct>]
>
> Anyone else experience this?
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> Austin Gonyou
> Systems Architect
> Coremetrics, Inc.
> Phone: 512-796-9023
> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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