On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 7:19 AM, Rainer Jung <rainer.j...@kippdata.de> wrote: > I can currently reproduce the following problem with 2.2.15 event MPM under > high load: > > When an httpd child process gets closed due to the max spare threads rule > and it holds established client connections for which it has fully received > a keep alive request, but not yet send any part of the response, it will > simply close that connection. > > Is that expected behaviour? It doesn't seem reproducible for the worker MPM. > The behaviour has been observed using extreme spare rules in order to make > processes shut down often, but it still seems not right.
Is this the currently-unhandled situation discussed in this thread? http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/httpd-dev/200711.mbox/%3ccc67648e0711130530h45c2a28ctcd743b2160e22...@mail.gmail.com%3e Perhaps Event's special handling for keepalive connections results in the window being encountered more often?