You also asked about how the crash works? When the child returns the error, the Apache parent process dies and Apache goes completely offline. I have to manually restart Apache. ----------------------------------- Graham Frank (608) 359-1593 Neoservers LLC - http://www.neoservers.com/ Founder/Owner -----Original Message----- From: Boyle Owen Date: 12/5/05 7:31 am To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subj: RE: [users@httpd] Child errors causing Apache to exit > -----Original Message----- > From: Graham Frank [mailto:gfrank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Montag, 5. Dezember 2005 09:47 > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: [users@httpd] Child errors causing Apache to exit > > > Sorry for the lack of info. > > OS: Redhat Enterprise Linux 3 > Apache 1.3.34 > PHP 4.4.0 > mod_security > > This server only keeps an error log and loglevel crit because > of how active it is. Access, transfer, and other logs > actually end up causing the system to slow down. This isn't > a hardware issue, but instead it is just extremely active. > > We've never had these issues before. They just started > showing up a few weeks ago. And what happened then? Did you add a new PHP page/functionality, by any chance? > > I will see about running the access log for a short period of time. Logging is an important part of web-serving. If your server is so busy that you have to cut corners by suppressing logging, that would be a good reason to invest in a more powerful server. BTW, it wasn't clear from your original post - do the alerts you see coincide with the entire apache server hanging or crashing? Or is it just one daemon that dies (ie, the browser session dies but you can access from elsewhere)? Rgds, Owen Boyle Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may be ignored. > > Thanks. > > ----------------------------------- > Graham Frank > (608) 359-1593 > Neoservers LLC - http://www.neoservers.com/ > Founder/Owner > > -----Original Message----- > From: Boyle Owen > Date: 12/5/05 2:26 am > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subj: RE: [users@httpd] Child errors causing Apache to exit > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Graham Frank [mailto:gfrank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: Sonntag, 4. Dezember 2005 02:46 > > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: [users@httpd] Child errors causing Apache to exit > > > > > > > > So I've been paying attention to my ErrorLog lately as Apache > > has been crashing > > about once per day with errors such as: > > > > [Thu Dec 1 10:00:02 2005] [alert] Child 27698 returned a > > Fatal error... > > \nApache is exiting! > > [Fri Dec 2 07:05:02 2005] [alert] Child 30200 returned a > > Fatal error... > > \nApache is exiting! > > > > Well, that's fine and all that it is at least telling me that > > it crashed, but > > how about a little more information? > > How about a little more information? OS? Apache version? What > modules are compiled in & loaded? What additional > applications are involved (mod_perl, SSL, PHP, SQL etc)? > > Also, cross reference the alerts with the access list using > the timestamp and identify the requests that are causing the > crashes. Then re-issue the request and try to reproduce it. > > Note that the error condition is arising in a low-level call > which may not be aware which application called it - hence > the lack of details... > > Rgds, > Owen Boyle > Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may be ignored. > > > > > Is there any way I can get Apache to be a bit more useful > > when it comes to > > figuring out why the children are returning fatal errors? 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