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From: Dave Yadallee <root@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca>
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Subject: Multiple spawning https that are NOT dying!!
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>Number:         913
>Category:       os-bsdi
>Synopsis:       Multiple spawning https that are NOT dying!!
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          closed
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jul 24 18:20:01 1997
>Last-Modified:  Fri Jul 25 15:36:05 PDT 1997
>Originator:     root@mail.nl2k.ab.ca
>Organization:
>Release:        1.3a1
>Environment:
BSD/)S all patches in; gcc 2.7.2.2
>Description:
Problem:  Running 1.3 alpha 1,  I run into
multiple spawning httpd rather exponentally
>How-To-Repeat:
Come to 204.209.81.1 and see
>Fix:
Suggestion: If a process in inactive, it should die
>Audit-Trail:

From: Dean Gaudet <dgaudet@arctic.org>
To: Dave Yadallee <root@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca>
Subject: Re: os-bsdi/913: Multiple spawning https that are NOT dying!!
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 19:18:49 -0700 (PDT)

 
 Are there any messages in your error log?
 
 On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Dave Yadallee wrote:
 
 > Come to 204.209.81.1 and see
 
 Um, how am I supposed to go there?  What am I supposed to do?
 
 > >Fix: 
 > Suggestion: If a process in inactive, it should die
 
 Do you understand Apache's spawning model?  It preforks servers.  If
 you're sitting there killing httpds it will continually spawn more.  You
 shouldn't be sending signals to anything but the parent.
 
 You're also running an alpha release... which is great, we need testers...
 but your report sounds like you're unfamiliar with how apache works.
 
 Dean
 
 

From: "System Administrator a.k.a. The Root of the Problem" <root@nl2k.ab.ca>
To: Dean Gaudet <dgaudet@arctic.org>
Subject: Re: os-bsdi/913: Multiple spawning https that are NOT dying!!
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 20:36:11 -0600 (MDT)

 
 OOPS!!!  Try from 24 July 1997 17:00 onwards.
 
 
 Dave Yadallee, System Administrator   NetLine 2000
 Available at (403) 473-4587  or Work (403) 424-6533.
 

From: Dean Gaudet <dgaudet@arctic.org>
To: "System Administrator a.k.a. The Root of the Problem" <root@nl2k.ab.ca>
Subject: Re: os-bsdi/913: Multiple spawning https that are NOT dying!!
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 20:28:12 -0700 (PDT)

 
 
 
 On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, System Administrator a.k.a. The Root of the Problem wrote:
 
 > On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Dean Gaudet wrote:
 > 
 > > Are there any messages in your error log?
 > 
 > I shall check.
 
 I suppose I should have said "are there any relevant error messages in
 your error log, and please don't send me 2.5Mb worth of logs".  :-/
 
 You didn't answer my other questions.  Do you understand how Apache works?
 It *always* preforks servers, there are always more than one httpd running.
 
 How many httpds do you have running?  Please send:
 
 ps -auxww | grep httpd
 
 And please send the output of /server-status, you may need to compile in
 mod_status and enable /server-status in your .conf files.
 
 Dean
 
 P.S. Please don't send them if it's over 100k or so, everything you send to
 this alias is archived and sent to a dozen people... 2.5 Mb hurt.
 
State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
State-Changed-By: dgaudet
State-Changed-When: Fri Jul 25 15:36:04 PDT 1997
State-Changed-Why:
Further inspection revealed it was working as expected.

Dean
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