I am seeing this issue on my web servers. It all started a couple of
weeks ago. I looked at my change logs and see no changes that would
correlate to this happening.
So this is what happens. A process reaches the MaxRequestsPerChild, in
this case 10000, it dies off but the parent process still thinks it is
running. When I look at the server-status page the processes are in a
"Sending Reply" state.
Here is a score board from one of my servers:
Scoreboard:
WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW_____________________W_WWW_________________....................................................................................................................................................................
Here is a small part of what I see on the server-status page:
0-0 21171 1/9999/9999 W 12.31 3081 15 0.0 76.34
76.34
10.241.48.117 www.blah.com GET /js/s_code_remote.js HTTP/1.0
1-0 21172 1/9995/9995 W 12.65 2719 33 0.0 65.51
65.51
10.241.48.149 free.blah.com GET /js/player.js HTTP/1.0
2-0 21173 1/9996/9996 W 12.37 1725 17 0.0 67.84
67.84
10.241.48.119 free.blah.com GET /js/site_catalyst.js HTTP/1.0
3-0 21174 1/9996/9996 W 12.46 2718 3 0.0 66.14
66.14
10.241.48.118 free.blah.com GET /js/cookies.js HTTP/1.0
4-0 21175 1/9997/9997 W 12.23 2711 95 0.7 70.41
70.41
10.241.48.147 free.blah.com GET /playXML/track/13356268?r=0.33
HTTP/1.0
5-0 21176 1/9993/9993 W 12.59 2233 7 0.0 65.62
65.62
10.241.48.148 free.blah.com GET /js/google_adsense.js HTTP/1.0
6-0 21177 1/10000/10000 W 12.41 2367 15 0.0 64.63
64.63
10.241.48.117 free.blah.com GET /js/global.js HTTP/1.0
7-0 21178 1/9997/9997 W 12.49 2606 3 0.0 63.83
63.83
10.241.48.148 free.blah.com GET /js/table_constructor.js HTTP/1.0
8-0 21179 1/9997/9997 W 12.32 2900 17 0.0 67.04
67.04
10.241.48.117 free.blah.com GET /js/cookies.js HTTP/1.0
Below is some stuff I captured from a web server that stopped
responding to web requests all together.
[ ~]# ps ax |grep httpd
21457 ? Ss 0:01 /usr/local/www/bin/httpd
1414 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep httpd
[ ~]# lsof -p 21457
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
httpd 21457 root cwd DIR 8,1 4096 2 /
httpd 21457 root rtd DIR 8,1 4096 2 /
httpd 21457 root txt REG 8,3 501900 471 /usr1/www/bin/httpd
httpd 21457 root mem REG 0,0 0 [vdso]
(stat: No such file or directory)
httpd 21457 root mem REG 8,1 126648 36049 /lib/ld-2.3.5.so
httpd 21457 root mem REG 8,1 1489572 36050 /lib/libc-2.3.5.so
httpd 21457 root mem REG 8,1 25476 106215
/usr/lib/libgdbm.so.2.0.0
httpd 21457 root mem REG 8,1 27660 36057
/lib/libcrypt-2.3.5.so
httpd 21457 root mem REG 8,1 196676 36058 /lib/libm-2.3.5.so
httpd 21457 root mem REG 8,1 125160 106805
/usr/lib/libexpat.so.0.5.0
httpd 21457 root mem REG 8,1 46552 31966
/lib/libnss_files-2.3.5.so
httpd 21457 root DEL REG 0,8 983040 /SYSV00000000
httpd 21457 root 0r CHR 1,3 1326 /dev/null
httpd 21457 root 1w CHR 1,3 1326 /dev/null
httpd 21457 root 2w FIFO 0,6 460663664 pipe
httpd 21457 root 3r FIFO 0,6 460663693 pipe
httpd 21457 root 4w FIFO 0,6 460663664 pipe
httpd 21457 root 5w FIFO 0,6 460663666 pipe
httpd 21457 root 6w FIFO 0,6 460663668 pipe
httpd 21457 root 7w FIFO 0,6 460663673 pipe
httpd 21457 root 8w FIFO 0,6 460663674 pipe
httpd 21457 root 9w FIFO 0,6 460663693 pipe
httpd 21457 root 10r FIFO 0,6 460663696 pipe
httpd 21457 root 11w FIFO 0,6 460663696 pipe
httpd 21457 root 12r FIFO 0,6 460663699 pipe
httpd 21457 root 13w FIFO 0,6 460663699 pipe
httpd 21457 root 14r FIFO 0,6 460663702 pipe
httpd 21457 root 15u IPv4 460663477 TCP *:http (LISTEN)
httpd 21457 root 16w FIFO 0,6 460663702 pipe
httpd 21457 root 17r FIFO 0,6 460663705 pipe
httpd 21457 root 18w FIFO 0,6 460663705 pipe
[ ~]# strace -p 21457
Process 21457 attached - interrupt to quit
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 540000}) = 0 (Timeout)
time(NULL) = 1224806756
waitpid(-1, 0xbfc31190, WNOHANG) = 0
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {1, 0}) = 0 (Timeout)
time(NULL) = 1224806757
waitpid(-1, 0xbfc31190, WNOHANG) = 0
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {1, 0}) = 0 (Timeout)
time(NULL) = 1224806758
waitpid(-1, 0xbfc31190, WNOHANG) = 0
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {1, 0}) = 0 (Timeout)
time(NULL) = 1224806759
select(19, NULL, [9 11 13 16 18], NULL, {0, 0}) = 5 (out [9 11 13 16
18], left {0, 0})
waitpid(-1, 0xbfc31190, WNOHANG) = 0
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {1, 0}) = 0 (Timeout)
time(NULL) = 1224806760
waitpid(-1, 0xbfc31190, WNOHANG) = 0
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {1, 0}) = 0 (Timeout)
time(NULL) = 1224806761
waitpid(-1, 0xbfc31190, WNOHANG) = 0
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {1, 0}) = 0 (Timeout)
time(NULL) = 1224806762
waitpid(-1, 0xbfc31190, WNOHANG) = 0
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {1, 0}) = 0 (Timeout)
time(NULL) = 1224806763
waitpid(-1, 0xbfc31190, WNOHANG) = 0
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {1, 0}) = 0 (Timeout)
time(NULL) = 1224806764
waitpid(-1, 0xbfc31190, WNOHANG) = 0
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {1, 0}) = 0 (Timeout)
time(NULL) = 1224806765
waitpid(-1, 0xbfc31190, WNOHANG) = 0
select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {1, 0} <unfinished ...>
Process 21457 detached
Here is the server info. It is FC4:
[ ~]# uname -a
Linux web10.sd 2.6.17-1.2142smp #1 SMP Thu Sep 14 15:27:50 PDT 2006
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[ ~]# httpd -V
Server version: Apache/1.3.34 (Unix)
Server built: Aug 14 2006 16:11:23
Server's Module Magic Number: 19990320:18
Server compiled with....
-D HAVE_MMAP
-D HAVE_SHMGET
-D USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD
-D USE_MMAP_FILES
-D HAVE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT
-D HAVE_SYSVSEM_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT
-D SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT
-D DYNAMIC_MODULE_LIMIT=64
-D HARD_SERVER_LIMIT=256
-D HTTPD_ROOT="/usr/local/www"
-D SUEXEC_BIN="/usr/local/www/bin/suexec"
-D DEFAULT_PIDLOG="logs/httpd.pid"
-D DEFAULT_SCOREBOARD="logs/httpd.scoreboard"
-D DEFAULT_LOCKFILE="logs/httpd.lock"
-D DEFAULT_ERRORLOG="logs/error_log"
-D TYPES_CONFIG_FILE="conf/mime.types"
-D SERVER_CONFIG_FILE="conf/httpd.conf"
-D ACCESS_CONFIG_FILE="conf/access.conf"
-D RESOURCE_CONFIG_FILE="conf/srm.conf"
Here is the top part of my httpd.conf:
#################################
### SECTION 1: Global Environment
#################################
ServerType standalone
Port 80
HostnameLookups Off
User wwwadmin
Group wwwadmin
Listen "80"
ServerRoot "/usr/local/www"
DocumentRoot "/usr/local/www/htdocs"
LockFile /var/lock/httpd.lock
PidFile logs/httpd.pid
ScoreBoardFile logs/apache_runtime_status
Timeout 120
ExtendedStatus On
UseCanonicalName On
ServerSignature Off
ServerTokens prod
UserDir disabled
AddDefaultCharset utf-8
###SERVER TUNING###
KeepAlive Off
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
KeepAliveTimeout 15
MinSpareServers 10
MaxSpareServers 20
StartServers 50
MaxClients 125
MaxRequestsPerChild 10000
If anyone else has seen this behavior before I would appreciate some
help. Thanks.
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Jason Cox
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