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Re: Apache 1.3.3 hangs; unable to kill children
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Vorobiev)
Fri Nov 13 09:53:19 1998
From: Alex Vorobiev <sasha@forum.swarthmore.edu>
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Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 09:52:42 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981111065725.1229A-100000@farpoint.tron.net> from "Tom Langley" at Nov 11, 98 07:04:36 am
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appreciate your help. my message was just a wild shot thinking that someone
could possibly experience the same problem in the event it is not DU
specific.
-sasha
> Wow, are you far from home! First, if at all possible, install 4.0D, 4.0B
> is full of grief. Secondly, although I personally am very fond of Apache,
> is there some reason why you are not using Netscape Fasttrack? It is free
> on the associated products CD that comes with DUnix. Lastly, try reposting
> this on the axp-list, Digital guru's hang out there including some that
> probably know every line of Digital UNIX by heart. Be sure to have handy:
> DU Version (4.0b)
> Latest patch kit applied.
> CPU model, memsize and firmware rev.
> Disk controller type (HSZxx, SWXCR etc. and the firmware rev on
> the controller)
> Amount of swap and how it is allocated.
> Network configuration.
> Have an idea of what else is going on in the machine when you
> experience the problem.
>
> Seems like a lot of stuff, but we had a problem with Oracle going to sleep
> that turned out to be a disk layout problem. Took over a year for Digital
> to figure out exactly where it was. No fault of theirs, we should have
> been more agressive with digging up information.
>
> Good luck,
> Tom Langley
> Richmond, VA
>
> On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Alex Vorobiev wrote:
>
> >
> > Digital Unix 4.0B (problem may not be exclusive to DU)
> > Apache 1.3.3
> >
> > Apache hangs, browsers receive no response for over 2 minutes or more.
> > Can only kill the root httpd process, unable to kill children: kill -9 PID
> > completes without errors, but the processes do not die. Trying to page
> > the access_log freezes the terminal session, unable to kill 'tail' or 'less'
> > that are used to look at the log.
> > 'ps auwx' returns all httpd and relevant tail processes marked as 'U' -
> > uninterruptable sleeping process. i am not sure if this is at all relevant
> > to the problem described above.
> >
> > any help would be appreciated.
> >
> >
> > --sasha/sasha@forum.swarthmore.edu
> >
> >
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