general/1436: apache is busy, but seems doing nothing

[Philipp Biermann <pb...@ibm.net>]

>Number:         1436
>Category:       general
>Synopsis:       apache is busy, but seems doing nothing
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Nov 19 17:20:00 PST 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     pbierma@ibm.net
>Organization:
apache
>Release:        1.3b2
>Environment:
mklinux 2.1/update5, power-Mac nubus, 100M RAM
>Description:
some times the server seems busy, for about 15 to 45 minutes. after this there is a message in the error log stating that the server is busy and respawned XX childs (maybe you have to incerease servers .....). But there were not more requests than 2 to 8 at this time and the number of servers is about 20.

If i restart the server with sighup it will work again, If I do nothing it will work after this time. 

I looked if the server is maybe cleaning its cache, but it seems not (I have setup a 500MB partition for proxy-cache)
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