The following reply was made to PR os-linux/4848; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Dustin Vaught <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: os-linux/4848: Apache locks every few days under high load (multiple physical servers) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 11:24:35 +0200 (CEST) 1. If you change the MaxServer of max requests per child, do you see differences ? And what are those values currently ? 2. Does the propbelm also occur if you -HUP your servers once every 5 days or so ? Or on those servers' you have HUPed recently ? 2. I've seen this happening on older linux 2.1 installations after some bogus RIP packets where processes the wrong way. That was a buffer overrun in an ioctl() which was fixed. But it would be nice to know if other deamons, say sshd, or sendmail do this as well ? Dw
