-X oddity

[Dan Jacobowitz <dr...@false.org>]

I eventually managed to track the cause of the follwing, and became
much less panicked, but I really don't think this should happen:

I was debugging some mod_perl things, and because of a few weakness
with reloading changed code, I ran the server -X so I could more quickly
kill/restart it.  After thirty requests, it died.  For some reason, if
perl had been used at all in the session it exited with 'Aborted'
instead of silently - no idea why on that one.  But the cause was
MaxRequestsPerChild.  This is just enough to load two pages or so if
they are heavy on images, leaving -X a little bit useless.  Shouldn't
this be ignored in single-server mode?

Dan

Re: -X oddity

[Rodent of Unusual Size <Ke...@Golux.Com>]

Dan Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
> I understand that - I just don't see why MaxRequestsPerChild should be
> honored under -X.

For one thing, it's good for an auto-shutoff, like -c for
ping or tcpdump.  -X means "run the server as normal, but
only use one process."  If you start making exceptions..

#ken	P-)}

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Re: -X oddity

[Dan Jacobowitz <dr...@false.org>]

I understand that - I just don't see why MaxRequestsPerChild should be
honored under -X.

On Thu, Jun 25, 1998 at 04:13:56PM -0400, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:
> Try "-X -c 'MaxRequestsPerChild 200'".
> 
> #ken	P-)}
> 
> Ken Coar                    <http://Web.Golux.Com/coar/>
> Apache Group member         <http://www.apache.org/>
> "Apache Server for Dummies" <http://Web.Golux.Com/coar/ASFD/>

Re: -X oddity

[Rodent of Unusual Size <Ke...@Golux.Com>]

Try "-X -c 'MaxRequestsPerChild 200'".

#ken	P-)}

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