Hey Greg, On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 12:20:44PM -0500, greg boyington wrote: > Background: The server was recently updated to FreeBSD 5.5 from 5.3, > which had run for a couple of years without interruption. I'm not > especially convinced the issue I'm having is related to this upgrade, > ... > <IfModule prefork.c> > StartServers 5 > MinSpareServers 5 > MaxSpareServers 10 > MaxClients 200 > MaxRequestsPerChild 0 > </IfModule> Problems as this are hard to track down. I'll give you a few thoughts what you could do next. Maybe it helps, but I can not guarantee it. - Play around with MaxRequestsPerChild. A typical value outside of 0 is 10000. I guess that's also the default, but not in your setup. - Did you compile apache yourself? Give it a try. - Have you tried to get the lock-up in a lab setup with apache bench or some other load generating tool? Guess, this would help. - You disabled mod_perl2 and mod_php. This sounds as if you would not really need them. (Or you sacrificed functionality :) Disable all modules which you do not really need. Definitely all of them. If you can boil it down to threadsafe modules, then you might give it a try with another mpm. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mpm.html Good luck - and keep us informed on how it goes. Christian --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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