On Nov 16, 2007 2:19 AM, Christian Folini <christian.folini@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey Greg, Hi Christian, thanks for your response. > - Play around with MaxRequestsPerChild. A typical value I will do -- I experimented with low values (100-1000) in addition to 0, but nothing seemed to correlate. In my testing, the hangs would often occur long before this threshold was ever reached. > - Did you compile apache yourself? Give it a try. I do. Most everything is installed from ports; I recompiled by hand when testing. > - Have you tried to get the lock-up in a lab setup with > apache bench or some other load generating tool? Yup -- ab was used to test each random tweak I made to try and isolate the problem. > - You disabled mod_perl2 and mod_php. This sounds as if > you would not really need them. (Or you sacrificed > functionality :) They are both critical to our operation, but since the box was dead in the water anyway I took the opportunity to turn everything off and test each one in turn. I only mentioned them in particular because I figured they were the most likely suspects. :) > then you might give it a try with another mpm. That crossed my mind as well, but I haven't had any experience with mod_perl2 and HTML::Mason under mpm, so I would have to do some research to see what I was getting into there. In the mean time, The Powers That Be have decided to build a replacement box so I can pull this one off the wire and do more testing. Hard to debug a problem that kills the production machine resonsible for web, storefront, email and support chat. > Good luck - and keep us informed on how it goes. Thanks, I will. -G --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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