On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Igor Franchuk <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello users, > > I have apache 2.2.14-r1/events MPM running on Gentoo with the 2.6.31 linux > kernel > > The problem starts as usually - from time to time I have many threads in W > state, > which won't leave the state. The threads engaged in writing have > an IP address to where Apache supposedly transmits the requests. > > If I #netstat -nt | grep "IP engaged in the W" > I would have an empty reply, no connection to IP present. Yet the > server-status > insists that threads are engaged in writing. No load is generated but the > slots are > busy, the memory is used etc.
W doesn't necessarily mean httpd is actively sending the reply. The request has been read and (generally) control has been passed to a module to generate and control sending of the reply. Backtraces of these threads would show where processing has hung. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] " from the digest: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
