>Number: 2141 >Category: other >Synopsis: After a restarting the network layer, the error_log file grows >until the disk is full >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: apache >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: apache >Arrival-Date: Sun Apr 26 11:50:01 PDT 1998 >Last-Modified: >Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Organization: apache >Release: 1.3b >Environment: Windows 95 I used the precompiled distribution from the ftp-site. >Description: > Well this "bug" is related to the way the "error_log" file is > treated. I am working to develop a network application using JAVA and > I decided to install a web server localy to my Windows95 computer. As > I worked some years with apache under SunOS [45].x.x I thought It > would be the same, and fortunately it was. It worked perfectly as a > server, but I experienced some problems when changing network > configuration "on the fly" either installing or removing pcmcia cards > or going back an forth into "SUSPEND" mode on the notebook. After any > of this things, the server stops respondig to browser queries and > starts filling the disk with error messages on the error_log file. > The problem is that it adds dozens of error lines or even hundreds > per second and is able to fill all the hard disk after a while. > > I just "tested" the error again before reporting it just by starting > the server, asking for a page to see that it works. After that I > closed the notebook and opened it (went back and forth into suspend > mode) and after that, you just see the disk activity led blinking. It > is working on the error_log, even if you don't see the file growing, > looking at the number of bytes available. You can also realize that > the server stoped responding (reloading the page). Then you "kill" > the server with a CTRL-C and then the error_log shows it's real size. > In 5 minutes and 23 seconds it was able to write 457.158 lines like > the one above summing a total of 34 MB on the disk. > > I am using Apache 1.3.b on windows 95 and I downloaded it > pre-compiled from your ftp site a couple of weeks ago. I was not able > to find this error documented and that's why I am asking. Hope I am > not disturbing, thanks for your time and congratulations for this > great server. > > Regards
> The line that is repeated is something like: > > [<date>] [error] (10038)Unknown error: select: (listen) > > > Ariel >How-To-Repeat: I use a Dell Latitude CP Notebook with the pre-installed Windows95 and nothing special. I hope you can have the same problem :) Unfortunatelly I could not test with other notebooks. >Fix: Adding some intelligence to the error handler, for example not repeating so much errors and using a phrase like: "Last message repeated 400.000 times: bla bla bla" >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: [In order for any reply to be added to the PR database, ] [you need to include <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in the Cc line ] [and leave the subject line UNCHANGED. This is not done] [automatically because of the potential for mail loops. ]
