On 2004-10-06, Mark Stosberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Could setting MaxRequestsPerChild be a meaningful solution here? It >>> would seem that this would cause the Apache child processes to >>> periodically get re-created, killing related zombies in the process. >> >> If you aren't using MaxRequestsPerChild or something like >> Apache::SizeLimit, you definitely should be. > > Great, We'll start using that.
Setting MaxRequestsPerChild to 100 seemed to be a sufficient solution in this case. We are now seeing a zombie count that hovers between 20 to 30, very acceptable number for us. Thanks to Stas and Perrin for your help! Mark -- http://mark.stosberg.com/ -- Report problems: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html List etiquette: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/email-etiquette.html