Stas -- On 2004-10-05, Stas Bekman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > May be it's just not working on your platform. Have you tried the other > suggested solutions at: > http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/performance.html#Avoiding_Zombie_Processes
Thank you very much for the response. In the past we have tried a number of other possibilities, based on part on this helpful documentation. What we have now seems to work best, but still produces these zombie like processes once in a while. This is a fairly busy website, so this amounts to be about 500 or more per day. > Also did you try to strace the hanging processes, to see what are they > hanging on? (i don't remember if one can strace a zombie). At your recommended, I installed strace and ran it on the hung process. It doesn't work. I think it's a salient point that the zombies go away with an Apache restart. According to "ps" (and 'strace'), these are zombie processes, but apparently they the still have some tie to their parent process. Could setting MaxRequestsPerChild be a meaningful solution here? It would seem that this would cause the Apache child processes to periodically get re-created, killing related zombies in the process. Thanks again. You're helping http://www.1-800-save-a-pet.com/ which recently re-launched with Apache/mod_perl after using AOLserver with TCL in its last incarnation. Mark -- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mark Stosberg Principal Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Summersault, LLC 765-939-9301 ext 202 database driven websites . . . . . http://www.summersault.com/ . . . . . . . . -- Report problems: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html List etiquette: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/email-etiquette.html
