Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 13:24:16 -0400 (EDT) From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: runaway apache processes? Message-ID: <14327.37184.259874.807747@trooper.velocet.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910031009380.6368-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <14327.6267.899595.923700@trooper.velocet.net> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910031009380.6368-100000@fw.wintelcom.net>
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>>>>> "Alfred" == Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> writes: Alfred> On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, David Gilbert wrote: >> I've been having real problems with runaway apache processes with >> more recent versions of FreeBSD. Apache is configured (by hand) >> with ssl, php, httpdapy (a python module) and a few others. >> >> When this happens, some (sometimes many) httpd processes chew up >> 100% CPU and need a kill -9 to die. >> >> Has anyone else be having this problem? Alfred> I'm not a php nor python programmer, however I've seen this Alfred> happen when there is an accidental infinite loop in a php Alfred> script, perhaps the php or python engines have a way of Alfred> aborting a script after X amount of time has gone by? But we've verified that this will happen even when the server is serving a non-php page or a graphic. It appears (after much pulling of hair) to be due to the pthreads required by the python module --- that compiling apache with pthreads makes it very wonky indeed. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://www.velocet.net/~dgilbert | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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