On Nov 16, 2007 10:39 AM, Christian Folini <christian.folini@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 10:06:50AM -0500, Greg Boyington wrote: > > > - 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. > > The directive means to let a child process die and fork > it anew after n individual request for this particular > child process. Indeed; I monitored the request counts via Apache2::VMonitor; sometimes processes would reach the MaxRequestsPerChild and die/fork before the lockup, sometimes not. I will experiment with mod_status and mod_diagnostics once the box is off the wire; thanks for the suggestions. I'll post my progress, if there is any. :) -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