Re: config/1519: Apache crashes after 138 Virtual hosts have their own log/error files (fwd)

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

The following reply was made to PR config/1519; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Marc Slemko <ma...@znep.com>
To: Apache bugs database <ap...@apache.org>
Cc:  Subject: Re: config/1519: Apache crashes after 138 Virtual hosts have their own log/error files (fwd)
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 08:55:34 -0700 (MST)

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 Date: Mon, 08 Dec 1997 10:26:42 +0000
 From: Mark Cooper <mc...@cableinet.net>
 To: marc@hyperreal.org
 Subject: Re: config/1519: Apache crashes after 138 Virtual hosts have their own log/error files
 
 marc@hyperreal.org wrote:
 > 
 > Synopsis: Apache crashes after 138 Virtual hosts have their own log/error files
 > 
 > State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
 > State-Changed-By: marc
 > State-Changed-When: Fri Dec  5 16:55:55 PST 1997
 > State-Changed-Why:
 > This is not a bug in Apache, but rather a limit of your
 > OS.
 > 
 > Please read the FAQ (http://www.apache.org/docs/misc/FAQ#fdlim) and
 > the page on descriptors (http://www.apache.org/docs/misc/descriptors.html).
 > 
 > It is very unlikely that this is a bug in Apache, and this
 > is asked all the time, zillions of copies in the bugs database
 > that you should easily be able to find, and is well documented
 > in the above files.
 >
 
 I apologise if I came across as just another dumb user who hadn't RTFM,
 but I did read the URLs you quote above aswell as a load of SGI web pages
 on file descriptors and searched the web/usenet for any related info.
 I came to the conclusion it was an OS issue and managed to increase the
 file descriptors available by using the systune command and setting
 the RLIMIT_NOFILE_CUR to 1024. Since then, both the hard and soft limits
 are set to 1024 rather than 200. But the problem still occurs at exactly
 the same point.
 
 > In this case, IRIX 6.2 doesn't support FILE structures
 > with descriptors above 255 unless on a 64 bit machine or
 > compiling with the n32 ABI.  You may be able to work around
 > this using the HIGH_SLACK_LINE described in the docs above
 > or compiling using the n32 ABI; eg. add -n32 to the command
 > line if using SGI's cc.  This is an OS-specific issue.
 
 We are running it on a Challenge DM but, as I didn't do the compile,
 Im not sure whether the -n32 option was specified. I will try a recompile
 with the -n32.
 
 Thank you for your help.
 
 Mark Cooper
 Systems Administrator
 Cable Internet
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