[users@httpd] connection is resetting

[Julien Cigar <jc...@ulb.ac.be>]

Hello,

I'm running Apache 2.2.16 with the worker MPM on a FreeBSD 8.1 (amd64) 
machine. Apart from the standard modules, I'm using mod_fastcgi and 
mod_passenger (2.2.15).
It works well, except that from time to time, about once every two 
weeks, Apache refuses to serve requests (even server-status or 
server-info) and I get a message in the web client (Firefox) saying that 
the connection has been reset.

I notice that it happens just after the following message in the error 
log file:
[Wed Nov 24 14:11:55 2010] [error] server reached MaxClients setting, 
consider raising the MaxClients setting

This is very strange because the server isn't very loaded and I'm pretty 
sure that MaxClients isn't reached.

I'm using the following configuration:
<IfModule mpm_worker_module>
     StartServers        3
     MaxClients          200
     MinSpareThreads     25
     MaxSpareThreads     75
     ThreadsPerChild     25
     MaxRequestsPerChild 10000
</IfModule>

Any idea what could be the problem?

Thanks,
Julien

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Re: [users@httpd] connection is resetting

[Julien Cigar <jc...@ulb.ac.be>]

On 11/25/2010 10:50, Bob.Anstruther@sqa.org.uk wrote:
> Hi, I wonder if it might be a memory leak problem you are seeing,
> monitor your resources, to check if this is the case.

Hello,

I don't think that the problem comes from a memory leak, Apache 
processes takes ~15M and /usr/bin/top says:
Mem: 2637M Active, 10G Inact, 1335M Wired, 325M Cache, 1646M Buf, 834M Free

I suspect mod_passenger of doing evil things .. but I can't prove it

Best regards,
Julien

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Re: [users@httpd] connection is resetting

[Bo...@sqa.org.uk]

Hi, I wonder if it might be a memory leak problem you are seeing, monitor 
your resources, to check if this is the case.


Thanks,

Robert Anstruther.












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