The following reply was made to PR os-solaris/3749; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "T. V. Raman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: os-solaris/3749: Apparent memory leak +httpd processes that refuse
to die
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 10:18:47 -0800 (PST)
>>>>> "marc" == marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
marc> Synopsis: Apparent memory leak +httpd processes
marc> that refuse to die
Wow-- first off, thanks for the instantaneous response.
(wish I get a similar response from the folks responsible
for solaris:-)
The reason I reported this as an Apache bug:
1) When the novell servers dont respond via NFS --and the
connecting WWW client goes away,
Solaris/Apache continues to wait for the NFS system to
respond --this is possibly buggy behavior on Solaris'
part
On the apache side, the problem is that the httpd processes
that get stuck in this way dont die
and continue to consume resources.
The combination of the above is to bring solaris to its
knees *very very* quickly.
marc> State-Changed-From-To: open-feedback
marc> State-Changed-By: marc State-Changed-When: Fri Jan
marc> 22 10:12:11 PST 1999 State-Changed-Why: Why do you
marc> think this is an Apache problem? If your OS is
marc> not letting Apache read from the files it is
marc> trying to serve, what do you expect Apache to do?
marc> From everything you have said, it appears that
marc> Apache is simply being blocked on an operation on
marc> an unresponsive filesystem by your OS.
--
Best Regards,
--raman
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