Re: ..reading.. in mod_status

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Chirouze Olivier wrote:
> 
> Thanks to Georgi Chorbadzhiyski [gf@xxxxxxxxxxx] for pointing 
> me to this
> amazing "feature" of Apache.
> Try the status page with the undocumented "?notable" at the end.
> (http://myserver/status?notable)
> 
Thanks, interresting output, but it doesn't bring any new information.

> Also, have a look at the long thread I once started on this 
> list called
> Apache 2.0.58 + Solaris 5.9: status "...reading..." & TCP state
> "FIN_WAIT_2"
> I had some interesting answers...
> 
Yes, I read it.

> To my opinion the "reading" state is normal if you're using proxy or
> reverse proxy. It might be malicious if you're running a simple HTTP
> server...
> 
Well, the server setup ist not so simple. Id does reverse proxying, but
with mod_perl and not with mod_proxy. The problem is, that the server
hangs sometimes under heavy load. The output of server-status is
something like:

---------%<---------------

Apache Server Status for ...

Server Version: Apache/2.2.4 (Unix) ... mod_ssl/2.2.4 OpenSSL/0.9.7a
mod_perl/2.0.3 Perl/v5.8.8
Server Built: Feb 21 2007 16:33:33

Current Time: Tuesday, 27-Mar-2007 11:47:42 CEST
Restart Time: Tuesday, 27-Mar-2007 10:33:37 CEST
Parent Server Generation: 2
Server uptime: 1 hour 14 minutes 5 seconds
Total accesses: 150545 - Total Traffic: 617.6 MB
CPU Usage: u412.8 s1302.01 cu7.12 cs0 - 38.7% CPU load
33.9 requests/sec - 142.3 kB/second - 4301 B/request
300 requests currently being processed, 0 idle workers

RKRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRKRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
RRRRRRRRRWRRRRKRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRKRRRRRKRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRKRRRRR
RRRRRRRRRRRRRKRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRKRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
RRRRRRRRRKRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRWRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRKRR
RRRRRRRRWRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Scoreboard Key:
"_" Waiting for Connection, "S" Starting up, "R" Reading Request,
"W" Sending Reply, "K" Keepalive (read), "D" DNS Lookup,
"C" Closing connection, "L" Logging, "G" Gracefully finishing,
"I" Idle cleanup of worker, "." Open slot with no current process

Srv	PID	Acc		M	CPU 	SS	Req	Conn
Child	Slot	Client Vhost Request
0-2	29017	0/131/863	R 	2.35	1635	3	0.0
0.48	3.29 	?	?	..reading..
2-2	29270	0/195/1287	R 	10.99	275	33	0.0
0.79	7.84 	?	?	..reading..
3-2	30118	0/42/1433	R 	13.24	208	3	0.0
0.22	5.98 	?	?	..reading..
4-2	30366	0/37/1073	R 	4.70	1073	3	0.0
0.14	3.88 	?	?	..reading..
5-2	30370	0/43/1371	R 	0.99	1436	88	0.0
0.33	5.89 	?	?	..reading..
6-2	28866	0/81/1192	R 	2.04	1296	5	0.0
0.31	4.05 	?	?	..reading..
7-2	28635	0/218/1247	R 	3.72	1634	34	0.0
0.72	4.34 	?	?	..reading..
8-2	29598	0/89/1226	R 	5.47	322	5	0.0
0.12	3.97 	?	?	..reading..
9-2	28444	0/250/1108	R 	15.90	83	65	0.0
1.00	4.70 	?	?	..reading..
10-2	29018	0/224/1370	R 	8.00	399	85	0.0
0.71	5.21 	?	?	..reading..
11-2	28662	0/145/1118	R 	6.99	1329	106	0.0
0.63	3.99 	?	?	..reading..
12-2	28446	0/205/1087	R 	12.13	822	4574	0.0
0.81	3.15 	?	?	..reading..
13-2	30412	0/39/1169	R 	8.95	149	2	0.0
0.13	6.21 	?	?	..reading..
14-2	28448	0/225/1133	R 	4.19	1595	14	0.0
0.74	5.49 	?	?	..reading..
15-2	29562	0/121/1164	R 	5.83	987	23	0.0
0.27	4.52 	?	?	..reading..
16-2	27598	0/336/1267	R 	11.07	612	40	0.0
0.92	3.78 	?	?	..reading..
17-2	29019	0/178/1571	R 	10.80	661	28	0.0
0.57	7.05 	?	?	..reading..
18-2	28715	0/151/1063	R 	11.23	246	29	0.0
0.75	3.75 	?	?	..reading..
19-2	30513	0/8/1122	R 	12.78	132	2	0.0
0.03	3.61 	?	?	..reading..
20-2	30174	0/72/1120	R 	5.22	687	4	0.0
0.30	6.12 	?	?	..reading..
21-2	28885	0/165/956	R 	7.63	1547	5	0.0
0.87	5.02 	?	?	..reading..
22-2	28452	0/282/1160	R 	17.86	614	3	0.0
1.05	3.75 	?	?	..reading..

[lines deleted]

Srv	Child Server number - generation
PID	OS process ID
Acc	Number of accesses this connection / this child / this slot
M	Mode of operation
CPU	CPU usage, number of seconds
SS	Seconds since beginning of most recent request
Req	Milliseconds required to process most recent request
Conn	Kilobytes transferred this connection
Child	Megabytes transferred this child
Slot	Total megabytes transferred this slot

---------%<---------------

As you see, the values of SS are very big, that usually appears on an
idle child.
I wonder if the server is reading from a new connection or waiting for
the previous connection to finish.
The server is reading data, but from whom? And why does this not time
out. I changed the value of the Apache Timeout directive from 300 to 30,
but it didn't help. Why is the connection not closed after some timeout?
Is this an Apache bug? mod_status says, that some slots didn't serve any
requests since over 1000 seconds, as can be seen in the column "SS".

I have the same configuration with Apache 1.3, and there it works. I had
to rewrite the mod_perl code becouse of the incompatibility with
mod_perl 2.

Peter

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Reif Peter [mailto:gal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> > Sent: 27 March 2007 15:36
> > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject:  ..reading.. in mod_status
> > 
> > My server hangs sometimes. When I call the server-status in 
> > mod_status,
> > all my children are in status "R", "..reading..". To trace my 
> > problem I
> > have to know what this exactly means.
> > 
> > What means "..reading.."?
> > 
> > In which state of the Apache live cicle does this appear?
> > 
> > Does it correspond with entries in the output of "netstat" ?
> > 
> > My environment:
> > Apache 2.2.4 with mod_perl 2.0.3
> > RedHat Enterprise 3

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