Hi Mark, On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Mark London <mrl@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi - At the top of my php scripts, I have code to connect to our ldap server, > in order for the scripts to make ldap requests. I don't have any disconnect > call in my code. Lately I have noticed that the apache server will get into a > state where connection requests will occasionally fail. When I refresh the > page, the connection almost always succeeds on the 2nd attempt. If I restart > the apache server, the problem totally goes away for a long period of time. > So I assume that somewhere, something is causing connections to stay opened > when the script ends, rather than automatically closing them. > >From what you describe your LDAP connections are made from PHP and thus should have nothing to do with Apache. I would suggest that you might find more answers if you post this question to the PHP list. > This error occurs with other types of network connections that the script > makes (besides ldap), so it's not an ldap issue. > > How does Apache automatically close connections? Is there any way to debug > the problem, i.e. to see if connections are left opened in some way? > As you mentioned above its your PHP script that makes the LDAP connection not Apache. Apache is not responsible for managing socket connections that PHP opens. -- "The secret impresses no-one, the trick you use it for is everything" - Alfred Borden (The Prestiege) --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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