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Posted to users@httpd.apache.org by Julian Grunnell <jg...@firstnet.net.uk> on 2002/04/29 13:31:51 UTC
Heres one I've not seen before...any advice?
[Mon Apr 29 12:09:42 2002] [info] server seems busy, (you may need to
increase StartServers, or Min/MaxSpareServers), spawning 8 children, there
are 24 idle, and 37 total children
Platform - RedHat 7.2
Pentium II 450mhz
512mb memory
Apache:
config.status
#!/bin/sh
##
## config.status -- APACI auto-generated configuration restore script
##
## Use this shell script to re-run the APACI configure script for
## restoring your configuration. Additional parameters can be supplied.
##
./configure \
"--with-layout=Apache" \
"--prefix=/usr/local/apache" \
"--enable-module=most" \
"--enable-shared=max" \
"$@"
MinSpareServers 25
MaxSpareServer 30
StartServers 25
I appear to be getting the error message once or twice a day, but what
confuses me is the fact that the server has about 5 web sites on and is not
a busy server, about 60,000 hits in one week.
And server-status shows that it has in the region of 20 idle processes all
the time. Start / Min + Max Spare servers appear to be set okay.
Could it be getting a burst of requests which is resulting in the need to
spawn new children? Does anyone have any ideas? I currently run several
Apache web servers but have never seen this before.
Thanks in advance - J.
- Julian Grunnell, 3rd Line Technical Support - Firstnet Services Limited
- tel: 0113 292 7736 : http://www.firstnet.net.uk
- [ This message subject to: http://www.firstnet.net.uk/disclaimer.html ]
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Re: Heres one I've not seen before...any advice?
Posted by Andrew Hawkes <ah...@unicon.net>.
I think you have MinSpareServers and MaxSpareServers too close together.
Try something like 20 and 40. The reason you're getting the message is,
your server config requires a minimum of 25 spare children. But as the
message says, there are only "24 idle". Therefore it needs to spawn more.
When your MaxSpareServers and MinSpareServers are that close together, it
results in Apache always having to be killing off/firing up new processes.
Give it some room to breathe.
-Andy
On Mon, 29 Apr 2002 12:31:51 +0100
"Julian Grunnell" <jg...@firstnet.net.uk> wrote:
> [Mon Apr 29 12:09:42 2002] [info] server seems busy, (you may need to
> increase StartServers, or Min/MaxSpareServers), spawning 8 children,
> there are 24 idle, and 37 total children
>
> Platform - RedHat 7.2
> Pentium II 450mhz
> 512mb memory
>
> Apache:
> config.status
> #!/bin/sh
> ##
> ## config.status -- APACI auto-generated configuration restore script
> ##
> ## Use this shell script to re-run the APACI configure script for
> ## restoring your configuration. Additional parameters can be supplied.
> ##
>
> ./configure \
> "--with-layout=Apache" \
> "--prefix=/usr/local/apache" \
> "--enable-module=most" \
> "--enable-shared=max" \
> "$@"
>
> MinSpareServers 25
> MaxSpareServer 30
> StartServers 25
>
> I appear to be getting the error message once or twice a day, but what
> confuses me is the fact that the server has about 5 web sites on and is
> not a busy server, about 60,000 hits in one week.
>
> And server-status shows that it has in the region of 20 idle processes
> all the time. Start / Min + Max Spare servers appear to be set okay.
>
> Could it be getting a burst of requests which is resulting in the need
> to spawn new children? Does anyone have any ideas? I currently run
> several Apache web servers but have never seen this before.
>
> Thanks in advance - J.
>
> - Julian Grunnell, 3rd Line Technical Support - Firstnet Services
> Limited- tel: 0113 292 7736 : http://www.firstnet.net.uk
> - [ This message subject to: http://www.firstnet.net.uk/disclaimer.html
> ]
>
>
>
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Re: Heres one I've not seen before...any advice?
Posted by Jason <jt...@cartmanager.net>.
This is an [info] message....
It is simply telling you that it is increasing the servers capacity to handle a traffic spike..... these are normal and can usually
be ignored.
I would probably turn of the [Info] messages off if I were you, most of them are unneeded unless you are having problems IMO. I
know that if I used these messages then I would flood my log files with mostly garbage... and then my hard drives would fill up....
ick :P
Your mileage may vary... some people may actually want the INFO on.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Grunnell" <jg...@firstnet.net.uk>
To: "Apache-Users (E-mail)" <us...@httpd.apache.org>
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 5:31 AM
Subject: Heres one I've not seen before...any advice?
> [Mon Apr 29 12:09:42 2002] [info] server seems busy, (you may need to
> increase StartServers, or Min/MaxSpareServers), spawning 8 children, there
> are 24 idle, and 37 total children
>
> Platform - RedHat 7.2
> Pentium II 450mhz
> 512mb memory
>
> Apache:
> config.status
> #!/bin/sh
> ##
> ## config.status -- APACI auto-generated configuration restore script
> ##
> ## Use this shell script to re-run the APACI configure script for
> ## restoring your configuration. Additional parameters can be supplied.
> ##
>
> ./configure \
> "--with-layout=Apache" \
> "--prefix=/usr/local/apache" \
> "--enable-module=most" \
> "--enable-shared=max" \
> "$@"
>
> MinSpareServers 25
> MaxSpareServer 30
> StartServers 25
>
> I appear to be getting the error message once or twice a day, but what
> confuses me is the fact that the server has about 5 web sites on and is not
> a busy server, about 60,000 hits in one week.
>
> And server-status shows that it has in the region of 20 idle processes all
> the time. Start / Min + Max Spare servers appear to be set okay.
>
> Could it be getting a burst of requests which is resulting in the need to
> spawn new children? Does anyone have any ideas? I currently run several
> Apache web servers but have never seen this before.
>
> Thanks in advance - J.
>
> - Julian Grunnell, 3rd Line Technical Support - Firstnet Services Limited
> - tel: 0113 292 7736 : http://www.firstnet.net.uk
> - [ This message subject to: http://www.firstnet.net.uk/disclaimer.html ]
>
>
>
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