> > Dylan Cuthbert wrote: > > > > > > Any more information on this problem? Anyone solved it? > > > > unfortunatly no. I guessed the latest cygwin 1.3.20-x, which included > > some TCP connection related fixes would be the cure, but it didn't. > > > > > server-status makes it obvious what's being said in this thread - ie. > the > > > children forked by apache aren't allowing themselves to be re-used on a > > > different connection properly, hence they all eventually lock up (once > > > KeepAlive times out) and your web site goes down. > > > > > > Corinna - simply set KeepAlive on, and the time out value to 10. Then > > > access your index page, wait 10 seconds and then access it again... > continue > > > this a few times and you will end up locking all the children up. (they > > > work fine until the keepalive system tries to reset them to another > > > connection) > > > > thanks for the analysis. I'll try to scratch that down on one of our > > installations here. > > Stipe, All, > > I thought I'd give the latest cygwin snapshot (Febury 20, 1.3.21s) a go and > see if that fixes the problem, as Corinna made quite a few fixes in the > fhandler_* code. I've been running the Apache service for just over one hour > and twenty minutes, and although I can only access it from my machine due to > firewall restrictions, it is working quite well. I haven't done anything out > of the ordinary to get it up and running, unless this is considered out of > the ordinary: > > - Changed the User/Group directives in httpd.conf to system/system. > > And as Dylan Cuthbert suggested, I kept the KeepAlive directive/set to 'on' > and changed the Timeout directive to '10'. I'm accessing four documents at a > refresh interval of five seconds and have not seen an error what so ever. > I'm strace'ing just in case, too. > > Just thought you'd like to know ;-)
Just an update: Apache has been running for over three hours now :-) It's looking very good that this bug has well and truly died! ::::::-) Regards, Elfyn McBratney [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.exposure.org.uk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
