Re: [users@httpd] Issue with Apache 2.4.51 hanging

2021-10-26 Thread William Edwards
> Op 18 okt. 2021 om 11:27 heeft Patrick Verdon > het volgende geschreven: > >  > Hi All, > > I'd appreciate some feedback on an issue I'm experiencing. I've spent quite > some time researching the problem as it causes a serious outage in our > application. I've searched the Web, Stack Over

Re: [users@httpd] Issue with Apache 2.4.51 hanging

2021-10-26 Thread Patrick Verdon
I appreciate saying that "nothing else has changed" is not particularly helpful - although on reflection, this is actually not quite true, a number of other system updates were applied as well as httpd, listed below. The PHP installation was not updated. Unfortunately I don't have much more to go o

Re: [users@httpd] Issue with Apache 2.4.51 hanging

2021-10-26 Thread Daniel Ferradal
I think we are deviating a bit offtopic here. but still just a little note: mpm_prefork is not problematic, what is problematic is when people do not size httpd with mpm_prefork to deal with the amount of incoming requests they receive. processes are more expensive to generate than threads and on

Re: [users@httpd] Issue with Apache 2.4.51 hanging

2021-10-26 Thread Ruben Safir
mpm_prefork has been problematic, FWIW On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 11:17:31AM +0100, Patrick Verdon wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > Thanks for the feedback. > > Unfortunately that's not really an option for us, as it's a major > architecture change, and is only something we would consider as a > last resor

Re: [users@httpd] Issue with Apache 2.4.51 hanging

2021-10-26 Thread Patrick Verdon
Hi Daniel, Thanks for the feedback. Unfortunately that's not really an option for us, as it's a major architecture change, and is only something we would consider as a last resort. Using mod_php works well for us and our configuration/application has not changed in years - the crashes started ve

Re: [users@httpd] Issue with Apache 2.4.51 hanging

2021-10-26 Thread Daniel Ferradal
Hello, Seems it is related to third party php module being loaded in Apache HTTPD, no? It would be awesome if you can move your php files to be dealt with php-fpm instead and from apache just proxy to php-fpm.. and see if your Apache server would ever hang again (if you do it you could even use m