From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 21 8:53: 9 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC0D037B401 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 08:53:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-122.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 169FD43FE9 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 08:53:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) by pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h2LGr1JP001763; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 11:53:01 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E7B4328.9040700@potentialtech.com> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 11:51:52 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030301 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Dave [Hawk-Systems]" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, hwg-servers@hwg.org Subject: Re: apache exiting signal 11, high request period References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dave [Hawk-Systems] wrote: >>Is the cause likely the burst of traffic, and if so, is there a tweak to allow >>apache to weather a volume of requests more successfully? >>Or is there other mitigating factors that need to be investigated? >> >>Server Version: FreeBSD 4.3(with patches) Apache/1.3.19 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.8.2 >>OpenSSL/0.9.6 PHP/4.2.2 1.3.19 is rather old. Have you reviewed the changelog for Apache to see if any sig 11 problems were fixed between that version and the most recent? I seem to remember an attack that could cause children to die that was fixed, but I could be wrong. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message