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Child processes die after each request ( after connection is closed) on OpenBSD

           Summary: Child processes die after each request ( after
                    connection is closed) on OpenBSD
           Product: Apache httpd-2.0
           Version: 2.0.47
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Major
          Priority: Other
         Component: Core
        AssignedTo: bugs@httpd.apache.org
        ReportedBy: kiza@gmxpro.net


I'm running 2.0.47 on OpenBSD, prefork. The following problem exists:

After Apache is running for some time, could be minutes or hours, every child
process exits after the request has been served. Meaning: client connects, a
free httpd takes the connection, the client closes, the httpd that served the
request exits, a new one is spawned instead.

MaxRequestPerChild is set to 0. The relevant section looks like this:

<IfModule prefork.c>
StartServers         5
MinSpareServers      5
MaxSpareServers     10
MaxClients         100
MaxRequestsPerChild  0
</IfModule>

This behaviour only starts after some uptime of httpd and puts unnecessary load
on the server, because many children are killed and spawned again for every request.

In the server status it looks like this:

Slot 1-4 serves a request (if browser uses keepalive more than 1 request gets
served)
1-4	12441	0/0/162	W

Connection closes, child pid 12441 has exited
1-4	-	0/0/170	.

This problem seems to be specific with OpenBSD and also existed with 2.0.46
which was the first version we tested.

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