Hi all, I setup an Apache 2.4 instance with PHP module, running Drupal. Running Linux (CentOS 6), prefork mode.
I set the MaxRequestsPerChild to a very low value (ie 4) This leads to often have <defunct> httpd processes (displayed by iftop). My question is about the impact of the existence of those defunct processes. As far as I read about them, they are dead processes that their parent is not aware of death. Is it possible that the unaware parent process assigns an incoming request to a died child process ? What is the supposed behaviour of Apache in this case? - Will it reassign the request if assignement fails? - Will there just be an error? Thank you. PS: Should I ask on the dev ML? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
