Re: general/2825: servers die to open slots (fwd)

[Marc Slemko <ma...@znep.com>]

The following reply was made to PR general/2825; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Marc Slemko <ma...@znep.com>
To: Apache bugs database <ap...@apache.org>
Cc:  Subject: Re: general/2825: servers die to open slots (fwd)
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 10:48:24 -0700 (PDT)

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 Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 01:11:53 -0700
 From: johnny best <jb...@rockr.com>
 To: Marc Slemko <ma...@znep.com>
 Subject: Re: general/2825: servers die to open slots
 
 thank your sympathetic response to my probably
 less than brilliant question.  your intuition
 is correct that we are running less demand at
 first that even the 50 servers at startup.  if
 there are any dynamic response problems as
 traffic increases i'll let you know.
 
 johnny best <jb...@rockr.com>
 
 Marc Slemko wrote:
 > 
 > On 11 Aug 1998, johnny best wrote:
 > 
 > > >Description:
 > > the system seems to run normally, except that the servers
 > > gradually die off, turning from "waiting for connection"
 > > to "open slot" on the scoreboard.  once they stop
 > > listening they don't appear to wake up again, except that
 > > a graceful restart resets them to the full number.
 > > the parameters of the httpd.conf are:
 > 
 > So you don't see any problems from the behaviour that appears
 > incorrect?
 > 
 > What exactly do you see, with numbers?  How many total servers running
 > when it is started?  How many in use?
 > 
 > How many are running a while later?  How many are in use?
 > 
 > Are you sure you aren't just seeing it naturally moving towards
 > the "proper" number of servers for your config?
 > 
 > If you don't have enough traffic to keep 50 servers, then of course
 > the number will drop as servers reach maxrequestsperchild and die.