Hi,

I am using Apache 2.0.59 in AIX 5.3. Apache is running as "apache" user-id, 
even the parent process is also running as "apache" user-id. I am using 
non-standard ports like 8028/9028, so I do not require root user to run the 
parent process. This is the configuration I am using in Apache 2.0.59.

  StartServers 2
  MaxClients 150
  MinSpareThreads 25
  MaxSpareThreads 75
  ThreadsPerChild 25
  MaxRequestsPerChild 30000

Actually what is happening - when the child process served 30000 requests, it 
is not killed by the parent process and the child process is running forever on 
the server till I manually kill the child process or restart the Apache. But 
parent process spawns new child process. So the number of Apache httpd process 
is increasing day by day on the server. The thing is, few child process gets 
killed by the parent process once it served 30000 requests. But few child 
process is not exiting.

Truss output of the child process that is not exiting:
3911841: yield()                                = 
3911841: thread_waitact(400)                    = 0
1144501: __semop(1048580, 0xF1B22D58, 1)        = 0
1144501: __semop(1048580, 0xF1B22D60, 1)        = 0
1144501: _nsleep(0x202069E8, 0x20206A60)        = 1
3911841: yield()                                = 
822367: kread(-802643620, 0x00000000, 0) (sleeping...)
822367: kread(-802643620, 0x00000000, 0)        = 0
3911841: yield()                                = 
822367: kread(-802643620, 0x00000000, 0) (sleeping...)
822367: kread(-802643620, 0x00000000, 0)        = 0
3911841: yield()                                = 
3911841: thread_waitact(400)                    = 0

Few system calls like thread_waitact(), kread(), semop() and yield() are 
running infinitely for the child process. Before the child process starts 
executing these system call infinitely, the last system call it was executing 
was thread_terminate_ack() after it served 30000 requests.

In the child process, one thread is in running state executing _p_nsleep() 
system call and another thread is in wait state, whereas all other threads are 
in terminated status.

(dbx) thread 
 thread  state-k     wchan    state-u    k-tid   mode held scope function 
 $t1     wait      0x38882158 running  2894597     k   no   pro  read           
    
>$t2     run                  running  3674465     k   no   pro  _p_nsleep      
>   
 $t3                          terminated             u   no   
pro                     

Since 2 threads are not terminated, I think child process is not exiting by the 
process process.

Have you faced this problem? Any help you provide to resolve the issue is much 
appreciated.

Regards,
Karthik Kanna


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