Hi, thanks for the info I think you're right, fixing the problem is easier than fixing the timeout :P
(though it's hard when the loop makes opening a terminal take minutes!) I might have a look into those solutions if it bugs me again. Thanks, again On May 5, 7:24 am, Graham Dumpleton <graham.dumple...@gmail.com> wrote: > On May 5, 3:36 am, Shadow <shadow.fusion.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I'm developing my site at the moment (locally) and it has an infinite > > loop somewhere. But my requests aren't timing out. The apache > > processes just get larger and larger, till I have to kill apache. > > > I'm guessing I need to set a timeout setting, but I don't know where. > > > Apache?mod_python? Python? Django? > > This isn't really easily done. There are a couple of choices. > > The first is to use fastcgi, although implementation needs to support > feature, and configure a request timeout in fastcgi setup. What will > happen is that a specific request takes longer than a certain amount > of time, fastcgi will kill off the whole process. If there are > concurrent requests, they will also be killed. > > The second option is to use mod_wsgi in daemon mode. In this case you > need to set inactivity-timeout option. This doesn't work quite the > same as fastcgi and is instead meant to shutdown process if there is > no activity at all, where activity is measured as no reads from input > and no output generated. Do be aware though that if multithreaded > process and there are concurrent requests, they are regarded as > activity. In other words, in mod_wsgi inactivity is measured across > the whole process and not an individual request. If condition is > satisfied then process will be shutdown and replaced with a new one. > While you sort this problem out, you may therefore want to run daemon > mode in single thread/multi process configuration. > > In summary, the only option is to kill off whole process through one > means or another, there isn't any way of terminating a specific Python > thread within a process. > > End result is that you are just better off fixing your > application. :-) > > Graham --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
