On Apr 6, 2011, at 11:54 AM, Pascal Robert wrote:

> 
> Le 2011-04-06 à 14:38, Johnny Miller a écrit :
> 
>> Hi Johan,
>> 
>> Yeah, I'm not doing anything unusual like creating a DB connection per 
>> server.
>> 
>> If I run from the CLI:
>> 
>> sudo lsof | grep httpd | wc -l
>> 
>> The count kind of bounces up and down between 500 - 1,500

I just got 7652 on a deployed that I would consider small.


>> If I just look at the contents instead of the count I see a bunch of 
>> redundant connections to access_log and the various modules (see below)
>> 
>> To be honest I'm out of my element here, so I'm not sure if this is unusual 
>> or not.  I've updated the apache's launch daemon plist to increase the 
>> number of connections apache is allowed to 2048
> 
> MaxClient and ServerLimit set to 2048??  Are you sure that you need that much 
> clients? I think I never set that value pass 384.

Yeah, that seems waaaay excessive.


> 
> How many httpd processes do you have? You can find out like this:
> 
>   # lsof -P | grep "/usr/sbin/httpd" | wc -l

That gives me 0 on OS X, this works for me:

ps auxwww | grep httpd | wc -l


Chuck

>> and I've gone a couple of days without a failure.  But I did do an 
>> intentional restart last night.  Prior to altering the plist I was seeing 
>> apache going into the unresponsive state about every 24 hours.
>> 
>> When I called Apple they told me to run netstat -m and look at this section:
>> 
>> 0 requests for memory denied
>> 0 requests for memory delayed
>> 
>> If that goes over 0 you can increase the memory buffer per this article: 
>> http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3512  But I've yet to see that number go over 
>> zero.
>> 
>> (this prints out several times)
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2    1996352   
>> 17733353 /usr/sbin/httpd
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2     393792   
>> 17733502 /usr/lib/libaprutil-1.0.2.7.dylib
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2     651248      
>> 15133 /usr/lib/libexpat.1.5.0.dylib
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2    4147008      
>> 15324 /usr/lib/libiconv.2.dylib
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2     578656   
>> 17733501 /usr/lib/libapr-1.0.2.7.dylib
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2      53888   
>> 17733291 /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_authn_file.so
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2      66500   
>> 17733295 /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_authz_host.so
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2     201360   
>> 17733299 /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_cache.so
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2      70660   
>> 17733308 /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_dumpio.so
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2     126528   
>> 17733321 /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_mem_cache.so
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2     117296   
>> 17733307 /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_disk_cache.so
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2     105944   
>> 17733311 /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_ext_filter.so
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2     245316   
>> 17733316 /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_include.so
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2      91784   
>> 17733312 /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_filter.so
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2     121380   
>> 17733305 /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_deflate.so
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2     126208   
>> 17733318 /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_log_config.so
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2      54200   
>> 17733320 /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_logio.so
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2      53956   
>> 17733309 /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_env.so
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2      71040   
>> 17733310 /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_expires.so
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2     100768   
>> 17733313 /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_headers.so
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2      66568   
>> 17733314 /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_ident.so
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2      70940   
>> 17733334 /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_setenvif.so
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2     378832   
>> 17733325 /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_proxy.so
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2     168484   
>> 17733330 /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_proxy_http.so
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2     138088   
>> 17733327 /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_proxy_balancer.so
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2     786308   
>> 17733336 /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_ssl.so
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2     915632   
>> 17731671 /usr/lib/libssl.0.9.7.dylib
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2     100588   
>> 17733322 /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_mime.so
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2     120612   
>> 17733337 /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_status.so
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2     176016   
>> 17733298 /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_autoindex.so
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2      54000   
>> 17733284 /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_asis.so
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2     101080   
>> 17733317 /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_info.so
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2     127384   
>> 17733301 /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_cgi.so
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2      70560   
>> 17733343 /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_vhost_alias.so
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2     167388   
>> 17733324 /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_negotiation.so
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2      66448   
>> 17733306 /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_dir.so
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2      95568   
>> 17733315 /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_imagemap.so
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2      58204   
>> 17733282 /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_actions.so
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2      71144   
>> 17733335 /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_speling.so
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2      66460   
>> 17733340 /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_userdir.so
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2      79308   
>> 17733283 /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_alias.so
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2     448160     
>> 698607 /System/Library/WebObjects/Adaptors/Apache2.2/mod_WebObjects.so
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2     305712   
>> 17733333 /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_rewrite.so
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2     290736    
>> 3429086 /usr/lib/libexslt.0.dylib
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2    1297968      
>> 15260 /usr/lib/libiodbc.2.dylib
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2    1046544   
>> 17731388 /System/Library/Frameworks/LDAP.framework/Versions/A/LDAP
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2     958864   
>> 17733803 /usr/lib/libcurl.4.dylib
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2     401216   
>> 17733947 /usr/lib/libsasl2.2.dylib
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2      88356     
>> 172780 /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_auth_apple.so
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2     101284     
>> 172785 /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_spnego_apple.so
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2     105824     
>> 172775 
>> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SpnegoApache.framework/Versions/A/SpnegoApache
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2     684032   
>> 17731066 
>> /System/Library/Frameworks/DirectoryService.framework/Versions/A/DirectoryService
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2     135724     
>> 172782 /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_digest_apple.so
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2      66280     
>> 174412 /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_hfs_apple.so
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2    1380352   
>> 18089764 /private/tmp/WOAdaptorState
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2   31641660   
>> 17733495 /usr/libexec/apache2/libphp5.so
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2    1380352   
>> 18089793 /private/tmp/WOAdaptorState
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2    1059792    
>> 8952176 /usr/lib/dyld
>> httpd     6511           _www  txt       REG       14,2   98283520   
>> 17736835 /private/var/db/dyld/dyld_shared_cache_x86_64
>> httpd     6511           _www    0r      CHR        3,2        0t0  
>> 345489284 /dev/null
>> 
>> (same here this repeats many times)
>> httpd     6511           _www   11w      REG       14,2 5055271697     
>> 474173 /private/var/log/apache2/access_log
>> httpd     6511           _www   12w      REG       14,2 5055271697     
>> 474173 /private/var/log/apache2/access_log
>> httpd     6511           _www   13w      REG       14,2 5055271697     
>> 474173 /private/var/log/apache2/access_log
>> httpd     6511           _www   14w      REG       14,2 5055271697     
>> 474173 /private/var/log/apache2/access_log
>> httpd     6511           _www   15w      REG       14,2 5055271697     
>> 474173 /private/var/log/apache2/access_log
>> httpd     6511           _www   16w      REG       14,2 5055271697     
>> 474173 /private/var/log/apache2/access_log
>> httpd     6511           _www   17w      REG       14,2 5055271697     
>> 474173 /private/var/log/apache2/access_log
>> httpd     6511           _www   18w      REG       14,2 5055271697     
>> 474173 /private/var/log/apache2/access_log
>> httpd     6511           _www   19w      REG       14,2 5055271697     
>> 474173 /private/var/log/apache2/access_log
>> httpd     6511           _www   20w      REG       14,2 5055271697     
>> 474173 /private/var/log/apache2/access_log
>> httpd     6511           _www   21w      REG       14,2 5055271697     
>> 474173 /private/var/log/apache2/access_log
>> httpd     6511           _www   22w      REG       14,2 5055271697     
>> 474173 /private/var/log/apache2/access_log
>> httpd     6511           _www   23w      REG       14,2 5055271697     
>> 474173 /private/var/log/apache2/access_log
>> httpd     6511           _www   24w      REG       14,2 5055271697     
>> 474173 /private/var/log/apache2/access_log
>> httpd     6511           _www   25w      REG       14,2 5055271697     
>> 474173 /private/var/log/apache2/access_log
>> httpd     6511           _www   26w      REG       14,2 5055271697     
>> 474173 /private/var/log/apache2/access_log
>> httpd     6511           _www   27w      REG       14,2 5055271697     
>> 474173 /private/var/log/apache2/access_log
>> httpd     6511           _www   28w      REG       14,2 5055271697     
>> 474173 /private/var/log/apache2/access_log
>> httpd     6511           _www   29w      REG       14,2 5055271697     
>> 474173 /private/var/log/apache2/access_log
>> httpd     6511           _www   30w      REG       14,2 5055271697     
>> 474173 /private/var/log/apache2/access_log
>> httpd     6511           _www   31w      REG       14,2 5055271697     
>> 474173 /private/var/log/apache2/access_log
>> httpd     6511           _www   32w      REG       14,2 5055271697     
>> 474173 /private/var/log/apache2/access_log
>> httpd     6511           _www   33w      REG       14,2 5055271697     
>> 474173 /private/var/log/apache2/access_log
>> httpd     6511           _www   34w      REG       14,2 5055271697     
>> 474173 /private/var/log/apache2/access_log
>> httpd     6511           _www   35w      REG       14,2 5055271697     
>> 474173 /private/var/log/apache2/access_log
>> httpd     6511           _www   36w      REG       14,2 5055271697     
>> 474173 /private/var/log/apache2/access_log
>> httpd     6511           _www   37w      REG       14,2 5055271697     
>> 474173 /private/var/log/apache2/access_log
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Apr 6, 2011, at 7:53 AM, Johan Henselmans wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On 5 apr 2011, at 02:40, Johnny Miller wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I was wondering if anyone else had experienced the same thing.  I have a 
>>>> X-Serve running OS X 10.5.8 whose apache server is going into a frozen 
>>>> state where it stops serving requests and can only be restarted by 
>>>> rebooting the machine.  All other services seem to being running normally.
>>>> 
>>>> If I look at the error_log I see many variations of this error:
>>>> 
>>>> Too many open files in system:Some/path/on/system
>>>> 
>>>> I've seen this thread on the Apple discussion board: 
>>>> http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1449787&start=15&tstart=0
>>>> And this article in the knowledge base: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3512
>>>> 
>>>> Does anyone have more wisdom to share?
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> I once had a similar problem when I started my own objectstore coordinator 
>>> for each session, along the line of:
>>> // this causes all kinds of mayhem: do not do this at home, it creates a 
>>> new database connection for every session
>>> 
>>> // EOObjectStoreCoordinator coord = new EOObjectStoreCoordinator();
>>> // myEc = ERXEC.newEditingContext(coord);
>>> // myEc().setDelegate(this);
>>> 
>>> 
>>> After that, the database would have so many open connections after a while 
>>> that the database would have too many open files, and would break down. 
>>> 
>>> I also seem to remember that some apache configuration would freeze with a 
>>> specific log-rotation setup. (that was apache 1.3 on a FreeBSD machine)
>>> 
>>> Furthermore I would look for something in apache that opens a file but 
>>> never closes these. You might use opensnoop for that, see man opensnoop, or 
>>> lsof might give you some clues. 
>>> 
>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>> 
>>>> Johnny Miller
>>>> Kahalawai Media Corp
>>>> http://www.kahalawai.com
>>>> 
>>>> 
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