Hello... We're using Apache 2.0.59 on Solaris. I've noticed over the
last few bug/security releases, file handles being held open on rotated
log files when using graceful restarts.
>From what I understand, graceful restarting is the best way to do log
rotation. But over the course of a few nightly log rotations, there are
rotated logs that never have their file handles closed, causing df to
incorrectly report a full filesystem. The only fix is to either a) kill
the offending server process (if identifiable) or b) do a hard restart.
In the ps output below, I was able to identify the offending server (see
Nov 11 process **):
nobody 23698 7548 0 12:26:15 ? httpd -k start
nobody 23769 7548 0 12:27:30 ? httpd -k start
nobody 23508 7548 0 12:24:33 ? httpd -k start
nobody 26870 7548 0 Nov 11 ? httpd -k start **
nobody 23704 7548 0 12:26:39 ? httpd -k start
root 7548 1 0 Nov 08 ? httpd -k start
nobody 25972 7548 0 18:40:32 ? httpd -k start
nobody 23766 7548 0 12:27:10 ? httpd -k start
nobody 23572 7548 0 12:25:00 ? httpd -k start
nobody 23636 7548 0 12:25:08 ? httpd -k start
nobody 23430 7548 0 12:23:29 ? httpd -k start
nobody 23436 7548 0 12:23:34 ? httpd -k start
nobody 23703 7548 0 12:26:37 ? httpd -k start
nobody 23767 7548 0 12:27:18 ? httpd -k start
The Nov 11 server was three days old (and was not the parent process),
so it stuck out, and killing it "freed up" the "used" space in df.
We use the worker MPM as follows:
StartServers 40
MaxClients 350
MinSpareThreads 40
MaxSpareThreads 75
ThreadsPerChild 25
MaxRequestsPerChild 10000
I tried setting MaxRequestsPerChild in an effort to force aging children
to die, but that hasn't helped.
Can anyone explain why these rogue children are not going away over
time? Do I simply need to stop using "graceful" in my log rotations
(though less desirable)?
Thanks for reading.
--
Chris Boyce
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