Hi,
I'm facing following problem: Apache running inside an OpenVZ VPS,
serving multiple VirtualHosts. Now, it has regular availabiliy problems
- which isn't nesessarily Apache's fault, since it's mainly just a
wrapper.
What I don't quite understand is this: during the periods when the
server isn't available (and seems to do nothing) most of TCP sessions
look like the one below - apache keeps resending the handshake SYNACK
packets to the client although client's response is clearly here
(tcpdump done from inside the VPS).
Now I would think that even when the Apache proccess would hang (CPU
load falls to 0), e.g. waiting for some other component, the TCP stack
part of the application (or is it the kernel?) would still behave
normally - is this wrong? I.e. is such behaviour normal? Or do the
incoming packets get lost somewhere?
My first guess would have been that when the server is busy serving an
expensive request, the tcp rcv buffer would get full and packets would
get dropped. But wouldn't tcpdump not be able to see them then?
Any help would be highly appreciated,
Max Deineko.
Session dump:
10:14:33.666935 IP CLIENT > SERVER: S 742086248:742086248(0) win 5808 <mss 1452,sackOK,timestamp 196805971 0,nop,wscale 7>
10:14:33.666965 IP SERVER > CLIENT: S 2619430727:2619430727(0) ack 742086249 win 5792 <mss 1460,sackOK,timestamp 347617915 196805971,nop,wscale 2>
10:14:33.700161 IP CLIENT > SERVER: . ack 1 win 46 <nop,nop,timestamp 196805980 347617915>
10:14:33.708406 IP CLIENT > SERVER: P 1:899(898) ack 1 win 46 <nop,nop,timestamp 196805980 347617915>
10:14:33.709279 IP CLIENT > SERVER: P 899:963(64) ack 1 win 46 <nop,nop,timestamp 196805980 347617915>
10:14:33.945483 IP CLIENT > SERVER: P 1:899(898) ack 1 win 46 <nop,nop,timestamp 196806039 347617915>
10:14:34.417635 IP CLIENT > SERVER: P 1:899(898) ack 1 win 46 <nop,nop,timestamp 196806157 347617915>
10:14:35.360801 IP CLIENT > SERVER: P 1:899(898) ack 1 win 46 <nop,nop,timestamp 196806393 347617915>
10:14:37.249017 IP CLIENT > SERVER: P 1:899(898) ack 1 win 46 <nop,nop,timestamp 196806865 347617915>
10:14:38.253998 IP SERVER > CLIENT: S 2619430727:2619430727(0) ack 742086249 win 5792 <mss 1460,sackOK,timestamp 347622503 196806865,nop,wscale 2>
10:14:38.287866 IP CLIENT > SERVER: . ack 1 win 46 <nop,nop,timestamp 196807127 347622503,nop,nop,sack 1 {0:1}>
10:14:41.023578 IP CLIENT > SERVER: P 1:899(898) ack 1 win 46 <nop,nop,timestamp 196807809 347622503>
10:14:44.253514 IP SERVER > CLIENT: S 2619430727:2619430727(0) ack 742086249 win 5792 <mss 1460,sackOK,timestamp 347628503 196807809,nop,wscale 2>
10:14:44.287392 IP CLIENT > SERVER: . ack 1 win 46 <nop,nop,timestamp 196808627 347628503,nop,nop,sack 1 {0:1}>
10:14:48.581817 IP CLIENT > SERVER: P 1:899(898) ack 1 win 46 <nop,nop,timestamp 196809697 347628503>
10:14:56.258819 IP SERVER > CLIENT: S 2619430727:2619430727(0) ack 742086249 win 5792 <mss 1460,sackOK,timestamp 347640510 196809697,nop,wscale 2>
10:14:56.292441 IP CLIENT > SERVER: . ack 1 win 46 <nop,nop,timestamp 196811629 347640510,nop,nop,sack 1 {0:1}>
10:15:03.676701 IP CLIENT > SERVER: P 1:899(898) ack 1 win 46 <nop,nop,timestamp 196813473 347640510>
10:15:20.458057 IP SERVER > CLIENT: S 2619430727:2619430727(0) ack 742086249 win 5792 <mss 1460,sackOK,timestamp 347664713 196813473,nop,wscale 2>
10:15:20.491784 IP CLIENT > SERVER: . ack 1 win 46 <nop,nop,timestamp 196817680 347664713,nop,nop,sack 1 {0:1}>
10:15:33.876920 IP CLIENT > SERVER: P 1:899(898) ack 1 win 46 <nop,nop,timestamp 196821025 347664713>
10:15:33.876953 IP SERVER > CLIENT: . ack 899 win 1897 <nop,nop,timestamp 347678134 196821025>
10:15:33.911143 IP CLIENT > SERVER: P 899:963(64) ack 1 win 46 <nop,nop,timestamp 196821035 347678134>
...(connection recovers)
# uname -a
Linux 2.6.9-023stab044.4-enterprise #1 SMP Thu May 24 17:41:23 MSD 2007
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
# httpd -V
Server version: Apache/2.0.52
Server built: Jul 14 2007 11:53:18
Server's Module Magic Number: 20020903:9
Architecture: 32-bit
Server compiled with....
-D APACHE_MPM_DIR="server/mpm/prefork"
-D APR_HAS_SENDFILE
-D APR_HAS_MMAP
-D APR_HAVE_IPV6 (IPv4-mapped addresses enabled)
-D APR_USE_SYSVSEM_SERIALIZE
-D APR_USE_PTHREAD_SERIALIZE
-D SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT
-D APR_HAS_OTHER_CHILD
-D AP_HAVE_RELIABLE_PIPED_LOGS
-D HTTPD_ROOT="/etc/httpd"
-D SUEXEC_BIN="/usr/sbin/suexec"
-D DEFAULT_PIDLOG="logs/httpd.pid"
-D DEFAULT_SCOREBOARD="logs/apache_runtime_status"
-D DEFAULT_LOCKFILE="logs/accept.lock"
-D DEFAULT_ERRORLOG="logs/error_log"
-D AP_TYPES_CONFIG_FILE="conf/mime.types"
-D SERVER_CONFIG_FILE="conf/httpd.conf"
sysctl parameters:
net.ipv4.tcp_moderate_rcvbuf = 1
net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 4096 87380 174760
net.core.rmem_default = 113664
net.core.rmem_max = 131071
net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 4096 16384 131072
net.core.wmem_default = 113664
net.core.wmem_max = 131071
net.core.somaxconn = 128
VPS limits:
uid resource held maxheld barrier limit failcnt
tcpsndbuf 3024352 3189816 2147483647 2147483647 0
tcprcvbuf 4662588 4728124 2147483647 2147483647 0
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