I'm having a problem with Apache, and I'd like some help with debugging it, if possible. It happens about once every day or two on a fairly well-used server. We're running Apache 1.3.33 with PHP 4.3.11 and mod_ssl. This only started happening after upgrading to PHP 4.3.11, but the symptoms I've noticed seem to suggest that PHP is not to blame. We tried doing an strace on each Apache process after it hung. Every single process (except the master, of course) is waiting on an identical semop() call, like this: semop(1507328, 0x83ab414, 1 When we check the semaphore value using "ipcs -s -i 1507328", it tells us that the current value is 0. So everybody's waiting for the semaphore, but nobody wants to increment it. My understanding of how the Apache children work is this: 1. Wait for semaphore 2. Listen (and wait) for incoming connection 3. Increment semaphore 4. Process connection 5. Close connection 6. Start all over again That's why I can't see why any modules I've compiled in could possibly affect the semaphore status. The problem appears to be between steps 1 and 3, before the request is even processed. Another intersting tidbit: this only happens on our two SSL-enabled servers. It doesn't happen at all on our non-SSL web servers. However, they also handle different types of requests, so that could be unrelated. Also, there are no errors in the error log right before it hung, other this (a fairly typical error log message): [Tue Apr 12 09:27:46 2005] [error] [client 63.226.182.95] Request content-length of 1802806 is larger than the configured limit of 1000000 I know that I don't have enough information for someone to tell me exactly what the problem is. What I'm hoping for is some help in knowing what to do next in debugging the problem, and perhaps some ideas on how to reproduce it. If we can reliably reproduce it, then we can start removing modules, etc to narrow it down. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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