I also thought the following would be helpful: This is the error log from this morning, it is confusing to me that the information messages say, for example, spawning 8, 9 idle, 49 total children while the ps ouput at that time shows only 18 processes.
Attached are the error log for a certain period and below that is the number of proccesses running at each time corresponding to the error log. ERROR LOG OUTPUT [Thu Nov 12 08:18:18 1998] [info] server seems busy, (you may need to increase StartServers, or Min/MaxSpa reServers), spawning 8 children, there are 9 idle, and 49 total children [Thu Nov 12 08:44:06 1998] [crit] (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to port 80 [Thu Nov 12 08:51:17 1998] [info] server seems busy, (you may need to increase StartServers, or Min/MaxSpa reServers), spawning 8 children, there are 7 idle, and 64 total children [Thu Nov 12 09:43:10 1998] [crit] (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to port 80 [Thu Nov 12 09:44:07 1998] [crit] (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to port 80 [Thu Nov 12 09:44:54 1998] [notice] httpd: caught SIGTERM, shutting down [Thu Nov 12 09:45:00 1998] [info] created shared memory segment #768 [Thu Nov 12 09:45:00 1998] [notice] Apache/1.3.1 (Unix) configured -- resuming normal operations [Thu Nov 12 09:45:00 1998] [info] Server built: Nov 5 1998 14:56:18 NUMBER OF PROCESSE RUNNING AT THE SAME TIME server up, 18 processes, at 08:18:00Thursday server up, 32 processes, at 08:44:00Thursday server up, 32 processes, at 08:51:01Thursday server up, 1 processes, at 09:43:01Thursday server up, 1 processes, at 09:44:01Thursday server up, 20 processes, at 09:45:02Thursday NOTE: Ther server stopped actually serving at around 9:40 though there were processes still running. Also the number of processes in the list above does not include in the count the parent process which is owned by root. Is there any other info that would be useful? An strace? > ---------- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED];[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, November 12, 1998 10:10 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: os-linux/3387: Regularly the httpd children will all > die with no errors given, the root process will still be running, must > stop and restart httpd. > > Thank you very much for your problem report. > It has the internal identification `os-linux/3387'. > The individual assigned to look at your > report is: apache. > > >Category: os-linux > >Responsible: apache > >Synopsis: Regularly the httpd children will all die with no > errors given, the root process will still be running, must stop and > restart httpd. > >Arrival-Date: Thu Nov 12 08:10:01 PST 1998 >
