From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 30 22:43:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.unixathome.org (ns1.unixathome.org [203.79.82.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12AE237B719 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 22:43:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from wocker (dan@wocker.int.nz.freebsd.org [192.168.0.99]) by ns1.unixathome.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f2V6h7f78365; Sat, 31 Mar 2001 18:43:09 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Message-Id: <200103310643.f2V6h7f78365@ns1.unixathome.org> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: novice in training To: "Ali Niknam" Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 18:43:07 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Apache processes grind system to a halt Reply-To: dan@langille.org Cc: In-reply-to: <001201c0b4b7$5909c040$0100a8c0@cow> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 25 Mar 2001, at 0:08, Ali Niknam wrote: > I personally think a rewrite may have caused it - it's really unsafe to > allow ppl rewriting rules.... When my own server was up & running (but not > used yet) I tried some voodoo-magic-rewriting too :) What I found out (what > probably is well known) is that you can make an endless rewrite loop... (so > that one directory sends the thing to another and the other sends it back) For what it's worth, after a week without rewrite rules, there have been zero runaway apache processes. I think it's safe to conclude something was going amiss in the rewrites. One day, sometime, I'll look at putting the rewrites back in. Note: not all rewrites were removed. Just those associated with spam engines. All that rewrite did was give them a simple page without links. But there must be something else in there... -- Dan Langille pgpkey - finger dan@unixathome.org | http://unixathome.org/finger.php got any work? I'm looking for some. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message