[users@httpd] Apache 2.0.53 - child process keeps restarting

[John <ap...@jbnet.cns-uk.org>]

Hi all,

I am using Apache 2.0.53 on Windows 2000 as a reverse proxy, with
mod_ssl enabled.

I keep seeing messages logged to the error log as follows:

[Wed Mar 16 12:57:28 2005] [notice] Parent: child process exited with
status
9 -- Restarting.

Apache then goes through the creation of a new child process, and
everything is back to normal.
Then, a few hours later, the "Child process exited with status 9"
message appears again, and a new child process is created again.

Sometimes, it can be a few days between restarts, and sometimes it can
be a few hours.
I have tried to match the restart of the child process with a particular
request, however sometimes there is no sign of any activity in the
access logs when the child process restarts.

So, can anyone give me some clues as to what "Child process exited with
status 9" actually means, and how to go about troubleshooting the
problem.

My MaxRequestsPerChild is 0, and I have Win32DisableAcceptEx enabled,
however the problem still appears even without the Win32DisableAcceptEx
directive.

I really need to figure out what's causing this problem, as each time a
new child process is created, a copy of rotatelogs.exe is left behind in
memory.
This leads to the server running out of memory after a few weeks unless
I manually kill off all the rotatelogs processes.

I'd appreciate anyone's thoughts on this.

Regards,

John

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