On 28 Oct 2010, at 12:49, Vanja Hrustic wrote: > > Unfortunately, it seems like I'd have to dig deep into Apache or > mod_perl to hunt this down, and I do not have knowledge (nor > 'intuition' :) to do this without some guidance.
I have a basic mistrust of shipped packages. I'm in the process of building perl, httpd and modperl from scratch for a client. I think for serious use, it's the only way to go. > > Basically, if I end up with these unresponsive threads, is there > anything I can do to figure out what caused them to hang? Would gdb be > of any use, would I be able to attach to these threads and see any > useful details (never debugged threaded apps, so no idea how that > would work)? Yes, you can do a gdb attach and a stack trace. You should be able to see from that if it's in apache or perl that the problem is happening.
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