Hi All, We have apache 2.0.59 as a forward proxy on RHEL 3.0 in Worker. The traffic on the server is around 45 Mb. Mod_status reported around 600 requests per second The worker conf is <IfModule worker.c> ServerLimit 18 StartServers 10 ThreadsPerChild 50 MaxClients 900 MinSpareThreads 100 MaxSpareThreads 900 MaxRequestsPerChild 2000 </IfModule> KeepAlive Off Listen 8080 Apache is behaving very well for most of the time. 1. We see that the performance sometimes goes from good to bad and then back to good. What we mean bad is that pages take more time to load or get no connection message. (See the error log entries below) 2. After 3 hours apache stopped processing altogether. There is no entries in the error log. We had to restart Apache. But after 2 hours Apache stopped processing requests. We have rebooted the machine and monitoring the same. We have not come across this behavior for the past 2 months. Error log shows the following... [Tue Dec 19 08:45:34 2006] [error] (111)Connection refused: proxy: HTTP: attempt to connect to 127.0.0.1:9080 (localhost) failed [Tue Dec 19 08:45:35 2006] [error] (111)Connection refused: proxy: HTTP: attempt to connect to 127.0.0.1:9080 (localhost) failed [Tue Dec 19 08:45:37 2006] [error] [client 86.90.135.159] proxy: DNS lookup failure for: tsclient returned by http://tsclient/ [Tue Dec 19 08:45:38 2006] [error] (111)Connection refused: proxy: HTTP: attempt to connect to 127.0.0.1:9080 (localhost) failed [Tue Dec 19 08:45:39 2006] [error] (111)Connection refused: proxy: HTTP: attempt to connect to 127.0.0.1:9080 (localhost) failed [Tue Dec 19 08:45:42 2006] [error] (111)Connection refused: proxy: HTTP: attempt to connect to 127.0.0.1:9080 (localhost) failed [Tue Dec 19 08:45:43 2006] [error] (111)Connection refused: proxy: HTTP: attempt to connect to 127.0.0.1:9080 (localhost) failed [Tue Dec 19 08:45:46 2006] [error] (111)Connection refused: proxy: HTTP: attempt to connect to 127.0.0.1:9080 (localhost) failed [Tue Dec 19 08:45:47 2006] [error] (111)Connection refused: proxy: HTTP: attempt to connect to 127.0.0.1:9080 (localhost) failed [Tue Dec 19 08:45:50 2006] [error] (111)Connection refused: proxy: HTTP: attempt to connect to 127.0.0.1:9080 (localhost) failed [Tue Dec 19 08:45:51 2006] [error] (111)Connection refused: proxy: HTTP: attempt to connect to 127.0.0.1:9080 (localhost) failed [Tue Dec 19 08:45:52 2006] [error] (111)Connection refused: proxy: HTTP: attempt to connect to 127.0.0.1:4664 (127.0.0.1) failed [Tue Dec 19 08:45:54 2006] [error] (111)Connection refused: proxy: HTTP: attempt to connect to 127.0.0.1:9080 (localhost) failed [Tue Dec 19 08:45:55 2006] [error] (111)Connection refused: proxy: HTTP: attempt to connect to 127.0.0.1:9080 (localhost) failed [Tue Dec 19 08:45:58 2006] [error] (111)Connection refused: proxy: HTTP: attempt to connect to 127.0.0.1:9080 (localhost) failed [Tue Dec 19 08:45:59 2006] [error] (111)Connection refused: proxy: HTTP: attempt to connect to 127.0.0.1:9080 (localhost) failed [Tue Dec 19 08:46:02 2006] [error] (111)Connection refused: proxy: HTTP: attempt to connect to 127.0.0.1:9080 (localhost) failed [Tue Dec 19 08:46:03 2006] [error] (111)Connection refused: proxy: HTTP: attempt to connect to 127.0.0.1:9080 (localhost) failed [Tue Dec 19 08:46:06 2006] [error] (111)Connection refused: proxy: HTTP: attempt to connect to 127.0.0.1:9080 (localhost) failed [Tue Dec 19 08:46:07 2006] [error] [client 213.84.166.176] proxy: DNS lookup failure for: vectraxp returned by http://vectraxp/ [Tue Dec 19 08:46:07 2006] [error] (111)Connection refused: proxy: HTTP: attempt to connect to 127.0.0.1:9080 (localhost) failed then automatically recovers after some time (bad to good performance). Any help / suggestion will be highly appreciated. Regards, Sai *********************************************************************** The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. This email does not constitute any commitment from Cordys Holding BV or any of its subsidiaries except when expressly agreed in a written agreement between the intended recipient and Cordys Holding BV or its subsidiaries. *********************************************************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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