Please help: resource limit for running Perl under Apache?

2017-05-22 Thread ST Wong (ITSC)
Hi, I've a Perl script that does following: - Ssh to a device and get information, e.g.: open(DEV, "/usr/bin/ssh -v statuser\@192.168.11.1 sh get client list| "); - Loop through the result and display as html. The Perl script can complete without problem when run in bash or i

Re: Please help: resource limit for running Perl under Apache?

2017-05-22 Thread tomcat
Hi. It sounds like what you need to do is : add some logging directly in your perl script, to a separate logfile. (And maybe re-open STDERR to that same logfile). Then you will see exactly where and why the perl script crashes under Apache. Do not forget that when the perl script runs under Apach

RE: Please help: resource limit for running Perl under Apache?

2017-05-22 Thread ST Wong (ITSC)
Hi, Thanks for your advice. We've done before by writing data read from ssh command to separate log file. The output simply ends somewhere. Then the Perl script continues with the rest of the code, e.g. the Perl script prints some headings, then a table containing lines from the ssh command

Re: Please help: resource limit for running Perl under Apache?

2017-05-22 Thread John Dunlap
You could try checking dmesg. Sometimes I see things like this in ours: [4585112.266794] Out of memory: Kill process 18584 (perl) score 937 or sacrifice child [4585112.266842] Killed process 18584 (perl) total-vm:53547100kB, anon-rss:47902052kB, file-rss:0kB On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 9:13 PM, ST W