RE: ..reading.. in mod_status

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"Notable" does bring much more information for me. I even had a look at
the code, and it's as simple as that: if you're browsing status page
with ?notable, then if request is in "reading" state, you will get the
client IP, vhost and URL. If not, you'll just have "reading". Is it
related to 2.2? (I'm running 2.0)

My opinion is, if you don't get more information then the information
doesn't exist. If the information doesn't exist, then you're probably
having an attack.
The status page example you provide points me to this direction too
because all slots are in the same state, with no exception.

Now, how to prevent such attack... I don't know. I see you're using a
recent version of Apache. At some point I did make an upgrade (from
2.0.49 to 2.0.57) because there was a fix related to such attacks. Is
2.2.4 at the same level of patches as 2.0.57?

Olivier

Olivier CHIROUZE
I&0 Infrastructure
Volvo Information Technology
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Reif Peter [mailto:gal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 28 March 2007 16:01
> To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  ..reading.. in mod_status
> 
> 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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