On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Edward Z. Yang <ezy...@mit.edu> wrote: > Hello all, > > We recently switched from Fedora 11 to Fedora 13, and were quite > puzzled by the fact that our servers, despite running on all the > same hardware, were being extremely hosed. We tracked down the > problem to continually spawning FastCGI processes: one virtualhost had > 200 of dispatch.fcgi running, by our count! No unusual messages > were found in the error log.
Do you have some sort of mass vhost configuration, or is ServerName not set? Have a look at http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=939472 I suggest trying mod_fcgid trunk anyway, as that commit changes the implementation of the one you identified. > > We did a little snooping and found that downgrading from 2.3.5 to 2.2 > fixed the problem. We think that the bug might have been caused > by this commit: > > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=753578 > > A similar bug was reported here, but it's been marked FIXED > and we don't think it addresses our issue. > > https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48981 > > Please let us know if we should submit another bug report, > or provide more debugging info. > > Name : mod_fcgid > Arch : x86_64 > Version : 2.2 > Release : 13.fc12 > Size : 130 k > Repo : installed > Summary : Apache2 module for high-performance server-side > : scripting > URL : http://fastcgi.coremail.cn/ > License : GPL+ > Description : mod_fcgid is a binary-compatible alternative to > : the Apache module mod_fastcgi. mod_fcgid has a > : new process management strategy, which > : concentrates on reducing the number of fastcgi > : servers, and kicking out corrupt fastcgi servers > : as soon as possible. > > Available Packages > Name : mod_fcgid > Arch : x86_64 > Version : 2.3.5 > Release : 1.fc13 > Size : 68 k > Repo : fedora > Summary : FastCGI interface module for Apache 2 > URL : http://httpd.apache.org/mod_fcgid/ > License : ASL 2.0 > Description : mod_fcgid is a binary-compatible alternative to > : the Apache module mod_fastcgi. mod_fcgid has a > : new process management strategy, which > : concentrates on reducing the number of fastcgi > : servers, and kicking out corrupt fastcgi servers > : as soon as possible. > > Cheers, > Edward > -- Born in Roswell... married an alien...
