Re: mod_perl crashing / hanging

[Stas Bekman <st...@stason.org>]

Torsten Förtsch wrote:
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> On Thursday 30 September 2004 19:48, Alex Greg wrote:
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>>Thanks for your response. Sorry I wasn't clear; the httpd processes
>>don't actually kill the server, they just slow Apache right down to the
>>point at which it doesn't respond to requests any more. I am still able
>>to get onto the box and kill the processes etc. without having to do a
>>hard reboot or anything. My question is what's causing Apache to get
>>into the state where it can't fork any more shells from Perl.
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> Activate mod_status and look at it's output. I suspect you'll see a lot of 
> W's, L's or C's. This can give you a hint what your server processes are 
> doing.

Or even better -- use Apache::VMonitor :)

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