Issues with my Apache

2008-08-26 Thread Arnab Ganguly
Hi All,
I am getting an issue with my Apache webserver.My configuration is
MPM=worker,Apache version 2.2.8 and Red-Hat 3.0.

My observation is under heavy load it pauses for sometime and then it starts
processing.During the time of pause I see requests handled by apache is
being returned with 500 response.I am not using rotate log module.

Can it be a problem with my configuration or i am doing something wrong in
my module?

Any suggestions or help would be very much appreciated.

Thanks and regards
Arnab


Apache and CLOSE_WAIT state

2008-09-03 Thread Arnab Ganguly
Hi All,
My Apache module hangs when I do a lsof -i:listening port output gives lots
of CLOSE_WAIT.
Initially the state comes out as ESTABLISHED but as the CLOSE_WAIT grows my
server hangs.
What would be procedure in order to prevent this.
Apache Webserver version is 2.2.8 with MPM=worker and OS=Red-Hat Release 3.0
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Thanks and regards
Arnab


Re: Apache and CLOSE_WAIT state

2008-09-04 Thread Arnab Ganguly
Issue it that I am using Apache internal system calls like
[ap_setup_client_block,  ap_should_client_block , ap_get_client_block]
for client communication and the socket descriptors are not available
at this level, as per the apache doc ,when the Apache pool is
destroyed the sockets are also going to closed.But seems to be not
happening or may be I am doing something silly. How do I make sure the
sockets are being closed once the client disconnects.
Thanks in advance.
Arnab

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Peter A. Friend <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Arnab Ganguly wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>> My Apache module hangs when I do a lsof -i:listening port output gives
>> lots of CLOSE_WAIT.
>> Initially the state comes out as ESTABLISHED but as the CLOSE_WAIT grows
>> my server hangs.
>> What would be procedure in order to prevent this.
>> Apache Webserver version is 2.2.8 with MPM=worker and OS=Red-Hat Release
>> 3.0
>> Any help would be very much appreciated.
>> Thanks and regards
>> Arnab
>>
> How to fix it depends on what your module is attempting to do. It helps to
> understand what CLOSE_WAIT actually means, so grab your copy of Stevens...
>
> When a TCP socket receives a FIN (other end closed the socket) from it's
> peer the socket is then half closed. The FIN from the local socket to the
> peer won't be sent until the application issues the close(). Hence the name
> of the TCP state, CLOSE_WAIT, since TCP is waiting for the application to
> close its end of the connection.
>
> When CLOSE_WAIT piles up and doesn't go away it's usually an indication of
> a "descriptor leak" bug. Something is either preventing progress to occur in
> the HTTP session (we are stuck so never end up calling close), or some bug
> has been introduced that prevents the socket from being closed. There are a
> number of ways this can happen.
>
> Peter
>


About lingering_close

2008-09-07 Thread Arnab Ganguly
Hi All,
How do I enable lingering_close in Apache.Is it enabled by default in Apache
2.2.8 ? Is there anyway to check it.
Thanks and regards
Arnab


Query on ap_lingering_close

2008-09-10 Thread Arnab Ganguly
Hi All,
I am getting lot of CLOSE_WAIT ,SYNC_RCV and TIME_WAIT state when I do a
netstat and result it is Apache pause.
What would be the ideal approach to solve the issue.I am planning for
explicit call of ap_lingering_close after reading the client request.

Also I see a #ifdef CORE_PRIVATE  under httpd_connection.h where
ap_lingering_close is defined and the macro #define CORE_PRIVATE is defined
in mod_proxy.h.But I don't use mod_proxy so is it going to impact anything?

For TIME_WAIT plan to reduce tcp_max_tw_buckets value.Is it going to be
impacted?

For SYNC_RCV
Increasing net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog, decreasing tcp_synack_retries and
enabling tcp_syncookies.

If you have any suggestion then please let me know.
Thanks in advance.

-A


Re: Catching apache restart signal

2009-01-29 Thread Arnab Ganguly
Apache restart means,child process are killed by the process.So you have to
write a program perhaps apache module would be the best.Catch the required
signal and do the job.The module can be loaded from the httpd.conf.

Writing a application putting it under usr/bin and putting the path in
httpd.conf can also make you achieve this.
Thanks
-A

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Paras Fadte  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> How can one catch a signal indicating apache restart in an external
> program specified in httpd.conf file  . Example would be rotatelogs
> utility or some other utility to which logs are piped .
>
> Thank you .
>
> -Paras
>


Re: Catching apache restart signal

2009-01-29 Thread Arnab Ganguly
surely.That would be the best.
-A

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Paras Fadte  wrote:

> Can APR be used  ?
>
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Arnab Ganguly 
> wrote:
> > Apache restart means,child process are killed by the process.So you have
> to
> > write a program perhaps apache module would be the best.Catch the
> required
> > signal and do the job.The module can be loaded from the httpd.conf.
> >
> > Writing a application putting it under usr/bin and putting the path in
> > httpd.conf can also make you achieve this.
> > Thanks
> > -A
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Paras Fadte  wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> How can one catch a signal indicating apache restart in an external
> >> program specified in httpd.conf file  . Example would be rotatelogs
> >> utility or some other utility to which logs are piped .
> >>
> >> Thank you .
> >>
> >> -Paras
> >
> >
>


Need information about Apache module development.

2011-03-29 Thread Arnab Ganguly
Dear All,

We are planning for an enhancement of our servers.We are looking out if we
write Apache module and use Apache to support the below requirements.



We would like to use Apache as a routing layer that accepts both structured
documents (XML docs) also some other predefined data blocks in addition to
key/value paris via http and then routes those transactions based on a key
available in the request such that the required keys and sub keys are all
routed to the same rules instance - this will require the original request
to be broadcast to multiple instances of the rules engine ( for example, one
instance may be tracking the IP, another instance may be tracking by GUID or
Screenname, and yet another may be tracking by some Signature.)



 A rules execution engine that is able to accept the request, evaluate a set
of ops defined rules and execute various responses. There are preference of
using DROOLS fusion.Any functionality in Apache based on Rules ?


What are the approaches need to be taken for dynamic load balancing.Like
suppose I have 3 instances of Apache is running and due to some issue one of
the instance goes down.I would expect the traffic should be balanced
properly by the existing 2 instances.

For load balancing apart from mod_proxy_balancer any other Apache modules
can be worth looking into?



As and alert broadcast engine that has the ability to distribute an events
to multiple end sources.



As a  storage layer that allows for data persistence for long term tracking
of keys and values. We have the target of good performance.Is it going to be
good using Apache or any other webserver would be suggestion.


Inputs would be very much appreciated.


Many thanks in advance

-A


Re: Segmentation fault( SSL enable Apache 2.2.6(64 bit)

2007-10-26 Thread Arnab Ganguly
Try loading only the required modules.Are you aware of the content length of
your request, like if it the contents are dynamic keep the KeepAlive Off in
your conf file.
Thanks
-A

On 10/26/07, Renu Tiwari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> From googling I got the solution to delete -O (caps o) from Makefile of
> openssl.
> I did it and this time "make test" got passed.
>
> But still I am getting segmentation fault after starting Apache server.
>
> Please suggest.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Niklas Edmundsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 4:23 PM
> To: 'dev@httpd.apache.org'
> Subject: RE: Segmentation fault( SSL enable Apache 2.2.6(64 bit)
>
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Renu Tiwari wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> > No, when I tried doing "make test", it failed.
>
> > But when I tried to run "make install" and "make", there I didn't
> > get any error.
>
> make install doesn't do the test.
>
> If your openssl doesn't pass make test, then it's broken. Fix that
> first.
>
> > Also I have copied the same SSL-enabled Apache webserver on AIX
> > 5.3(64 bit) there it is working perfectly fine.
>
> > Does this depend on the kernel also. As AIX5.3 is 64-bit kernel and
> > AIX 5.2 is 32-bit kernel m/c.
>
> > But our application is running as 64 bit application.
>
> Shouldn't matter, could be that you're hitting some bug that's been
> fixed. You might want to check your C runtime patch levels, and other
> patches too for that matter.
>
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Niklas Edmundsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 2:36 PM
> > To: 'dev@httpd.apache.org'
> > Subject: Re: Segmentation fault( SSL enable Apache 2.2.6(64 bit)
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Renu Tiwari wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >
> >> Hi,
> >
> >>
> >
> >> We have configured Apache 2.2.6(64 bit) with openssl-0.9.8g on AIX5.2(64
> bit).
> >
> >> Build openssl source after setting BUILD_MODE=64.
> >
> >>
> >
> >> The issue is, when we start the Apache web server(./apachectl start),
> we are getting segmentation fault in error_log.
> >
> >>
> >
> >> This issue is coming only when openssl is coming into the picture.
> >
> >>
> >
> >> What cud be the possible reason? Please reply.
> >
> >
> >
> > Did your openssl 64bit build pass "make test" (or make check, whatever
> >
> > it's called)?
> >
> >
> >
> > /Nikke
> >
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Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Invalid URI in request

2007-12-04 Thread Arnab Ganguly
Hi Krushna,
Thanks for the quick update.It comes in my error_log.I am using Apache
2.2Worker in Red-hat 3.
Regards
-A

On Dec 4, 2007 6:04 PM, Rath, Krushna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
>
> Can u provide bit more info…..where r u getting "Invalid URI in
> request".?in ethereal?
>
> Can u provide the trace and the log files?
>
> Regards,
>
> ~Krushna
>  ------
>
> *From:* Arnab Ganguly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 04, 2007 5:55 PM
> *To:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]; dev@httpd.apache.org
> *Subject:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] Invalid URI in request
>
>
>
> Hi All,
> I am getting lot of "Invalid URI in request".How to resolve this.I have
> checked the DocumentRoot and Directory they are all pointing to same path.
> Any help would be highly appreciated.
> Thanks and regards
> -A
>


Invalid URI in request

2007-12-04 Thread Arnab Ganguly
Hi All,
I am getting lot of "Invalid URI in request".How to resolve this.I have
checked the DocumentRoot and Directory they are all pointing to same path.
Any help would be highly appreciated.
Thanks and regards
-A


Analyzing access and error logs

2007-12-06 Thread Arnab Ganguly
Hi All,
Is there any free tool  available that analyzes Apache error and access
logs?
Thanks in advance.
-A


Query on MaxClient and ListenBackLog

2008-01-03 Thread Arnab Ganguly
Hi All,
I am using MPM= worker and Apache version is 2.2 on Red-Hat 3.0.
I am getting lots of connection timeout from the client request as due the
busy server.I have kept the value of MaxCLient 128 and ListenBackLog to
default 511.

So in order to reduce the connection timeouts which one makes more sense to
increase like MaxClient or ListenBackLog.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks and regards
-A


Apache log procedure

2008-05-29 Thread Arnab Ganguly
Hi All,
Can you explain me in brief of how the apache logs gets written.Does it have
any buffer mechanism while writing it into the file?I am sing Apache 2.2
with Worker model.When my webserver is overloaded i don't see my access logs
file growing for at least 1 min and again later on it grows.Later when I
check the entry in the access log I do see entry of the logs during the time
when the logs file size was not growing.
Thanks in advance.
Regards
-A


help on the signal handler off topic

2008-06-02 Thread Arnab Ganguly
Hi All,
I have printf statement inside the  infinite while loop.I want to write a
alarm such that once the timer expires, it goes to the signal handler
registered function and again it should come back to the while loop back.It
seems not happening to me.Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Arnab


Seems to be apache hanging, any idea on this

2008-06-04 Thread Arnab Ganguly
Hi All,
I am using Apache 2.2 Worker in Red-Hat 3.0.
Following are the behaviors observed in my access logs.
1) Sometime for a particular second there is no entry in the access log
although the server was up and it was fed by HTTP request.

2) Time stamp in the access log entry sometimes come in irregular way, like
the time of entry for 40th sec is before than the the entry happened in 30th
sec.

3)When I do a tail in the access log , sometime my terminal hangs , means I
don't get any entry in the access log but again after sometime I see
entries.Even the file size also does not seems to be growing during this
particular instance.

Is Apache is hanging because of heavy traffic???What would be the work
around for this?
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Regards
-A


question on timer management

2008-06-15 Thread Arnab Ganguly
Hi All,
I am trying to start two ITIMER_REAL timers.I use the following functions
getitimer and setitimer.I am keeping two separate structure members of type
struct itimerval for each of the timers.

But when I try to retrieve by using getitimer I always get the timer which I
had started later.Even if I use the different structure members.
What is the procedure to get the respective timer values correctly?
Thanks in advance.
Regards
Arnab


TCP/IP handshake issue

2008-08-12 Thread Arnab Ganguly
Hi All,
I am getting a TCP/IP handshake issue.I have a server component (In
Linux) which acts as a router and it is an apache module.What ever data it
receives it just passes to  client like component (Windows component).

Linux component listens to a particular port.Windows component does the
initial
handshaking fine.But after sometime under the heavy load what we
observe is Server hangs in accept().. it waits for the client to
connect and on the other hand client calls connect() and gets
connection refused.

I am wondering what could be the problem.
Any help or suggestion would be very much appreciated.
Thanks
Arnab