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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Stefan Fritsch <sf...@sfritsch.de> on 2009/02/01 13:38:53 UTC

more apr_pollset_* error checking

Hi,

the epoll limit in new linux kernels can cause problems because of
insufficient error checking in httpd. The most obvious problem was fixed
in
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46467 in MPM prefork,
but mod_cgi, mod_proxy_connect, and the other MPMs should also check for
errors in apr_pollset_create/add.

Patch is at
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=23105

For the documentation: This means that the limit in
/proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_instances needs to be twice the number of
MaxClients to handle the worst case of every process doing a proxy CONNECT
or cgi request.

Cheers,
Stefan