general/1555: excessive error log messages ... "send body lost connection to: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx : Broken pipe"

[Ray Bush <rb...@up.net>]

>Number:         1555
>Category:       general
>Synopsis:       excessive  error log messages ... "send body lost connection to: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx : Broken pipe"
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Dec 15 13:50:00 PST 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     rbush@up.net
>Organization:
apache
>Release:        1.2.4
>Environment:
Solaris 2.5 (also occurs on our 2.5.1(ultra's), 2.6 boxes(sparc5's) ) gcc 2.7.3 
(compiled -03 w/stock modules) Generic_103093-14 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-5
>Description:
After upgrading to 1.2.4 we (from 1.0) began seeing excessive  ... "send body lost 
connection to: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx : Broken pipe" messages in our error logs.

No apparent problems retrieving pages have been reported.  Is there a way i can 
retrieve the information as to which pages are involved in this problem as they 
are not logged.

All logged messages are not from slow connections. Numerous pings and 
traceroutes confirm most these sites to not be unreasonably slow (not 
greater than 500 ms) or unreliable connections (greater than 5% packet loss). 

This does not appear to fit the previous descriptions in the bug report list.
>How-To-Repeat:

The message logged in the error log with no indication of the page/file indicating the problem or reason for the broken pipe.

>Fix:
None at this time.  

Do i want keepalives set higher for this or do i want them off.  
I tried setting the values higher but this merely delays the output of the 
error message.  

I am now trying without any keepalives (keepalive off). This seems to have 
reduced the frequency of the errors
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