Re: Load spikes

[Rodent of Unusual Size <co...@decus.org>]

>From the fingers of Rob Hartill flowed the following:
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 16:51:55 -0500 (EST)
>From: Homer W. Smith <ho...@lightlink.com>
>
>    Running Apache 1.2b4 on Sparc 20 SunOS 4.1.4
> 
>    Getting VERY large load spikes repeatedly, up to load 10 or more.
> 
>    I got this in Apache 1.1.1 with Listen 80 enabled, apparently the
>code was doing a double listen on 80.  Turning off Listen 80 cleared
>up the spikes.  However the code has changed in 1.2b4, and even
>with Listen 80 turned off, and now getting load spikes.

    I'm curious whether this might be related to the reported problem
    with virtual host rewrites/redirects on other ports getting sent
    back to port 80..  (I'm not where I can conveniently check the
    details of the problem report, but there were at least two of them.)

    #ken    :-/}