Hello list, I'm using httpd-2.2.3-31 on a cent os 5 system in combination with 'mod_fcgid-2.3.5' and I'm having trouble with it. (More details of the used system are below in this mail.) The problem is that the communication works at first (after a restart) and suddenly all 3 mod_fcgid process switches from the state 'Exiting(communication error)'. Not at once but in a short time range (minutes). I've activated the handler "server-status" ("ExtendedStatus On" was set too) so I can have a detailed look on the problem. Here's some output of /server- status: > Process name: foo_fastcgi.fcgi > > Pid Active Idle Accesses State > 31845 64849 5340 542 Exiting(communication error) > 31808 64861 5507 477 Exiting(communication error) > 31843 64852 5647 489 Exiting(communication error) As you can clearly see all process are "brocken" and they will not be replaced. I thought that were a feature of mod_fcgid so I'm a little bit confused here. Here are the log lines that will "turn" a mod_fcgid process from "Ready" or "Working" to "Exiting(communication error)": [Sun Jul 04 00:27:35 2010] [warn] [client 10.0.11.230] mod_fcgid: read data timeout in 40 seconds [Sun Jul 04 00:27:35 2010] [error] [client 10.0.11.230] Premature end of script headers: well_fastcgi.fcgi [Sun Jul 04 00:29:55 2010] [warn] [client 10.0.11.230] mod_fcgid: read data timeout in 40 seconds [Sun Jul 04 00:29:55 2010] [error] [client 10.0.11.230] Premature end of script headers: well_fastcgi.fcgi [Sun Jul 04 00:32:42 2010] [warn] [client 10.0.11.230] mod_fcgid: read data timeout in 40 seconds [Sun Jul 04 00:32:42 2010] [error] [client 10.0.11.230] Premature end of script headers: well_fastcgi.fcgi The httpd will span just more processes and finally reaches MaxClients with this error message. [Sun Jul 04 02:01:02 2010] [error] server reached MaxClients setting, consider raising the MaxClients setting Did you spot the time difference? After one and a half hour the httpd runs out of httpd processes. Aren't they are supposed to be some "timeouts" for recreating the mod_fcgid processes? I've decided to limit the request per process and switched on the option "FcgidMaxRequestsPerProcess 100". But this was only changing the error message from "Exiting(communication error)" to "Exiting(lifetime expired)". Everything else stayed the same. All 3 processes in /server-status are marked with 'Exiting(lifetime expired)' but nothing happens. The number of httpd grows and the error message 'server reached MaxClients setting, consider raising the MaxClients setting' appeared again. What I'm missing here? Isn't the module mod_fcgid not supposed to work this way? Spawn some processes, pipe in the data, kill non working processes and replace the killed process with a new (working) one. Can I turn on some verbosity (for this modul)? What else can I do/try? Any ideas? Where can I get more information about this situation? I've googled for the problem but I found only configurations problems. My app (to be clear) is working so it's not some kind of permission problem. Thanks for your work and your help. PS: Here are some more information about my system: app backend =========== perl with catalyst (http://search.cpan.org/~bobtfish/Catalyst- Runtime-5.80024/lib/Catalyst/Engine/FastCGI.pm) os == CentOS release 5.4 (Final) httpd ===== httpd-2.2.3-31.el5.centos.2 http configuration (important part): ==================================== LoadModule fcgid_module modules/mod_fcgid.2.3.5.so AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi .fcg FcgidIPCDir /srv/www/app/tmp/fcgi_ipc FCGIWrapper "/srv/www/app/sites/app/script/app_fastcgi.fcgi" .fcgi ScriptAlias / /srv/www/app/sites/app/script/app_fastcgi.fcgi/ FcgidSpawnScoreUpLimit 100 -- So long... Fuzz --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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