Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache Sometimes Ignoring MaxSpareServers, Running Out of Memory

2006-09-29 Thread Qingshan Xie
Thanks Joshua for your help. Please see my reply/comment inserted below. Thx again, Q.Xie > How are you measuring? ServerLimit is a limit on > the number of processes, not threads. On many OSes, it is > difficult to distinguish between processes and threads. Our WebServer is a SUN box with

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache Sometimes Ignoring MaxSpareServers, Running Out of Memory

2006-09-27 Thread Joshua Slive
On 9/27/06, Qingshan Xie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Apache will never create children over > ServerLimit/MaxClients. Joshua, I did see our apache created extra children spawned by Apache parent. We configured Apache-2.0.54 with worker MPM, the serverlimit was 32 but it spawned over 42 chil

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache Sometimes Ignoring MaxSpareServers, Running Out of Memory

2006-09-27 Thread Qingshan Xie
> > Apache will never create children over > ServerLimit/MaxClients. Joshua, I did see our apache created extra children spawned by Apache parent. We configured Apache-2.0.54 with worker MPM, the serverlimit was 32 but it spawned over 42 children in the high load condition. Any comment? Thx,

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache Sometimes Ignoring MaxSpareServers, Running Out of Memory

2006-09-27 Thread Joshua Slive
On 9/27/06, Qingshan Xie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! Joshua, Under the high load condition, if the number of children spawned is over the ServerLimit or MaxClients/ThreadsPerChild, what the status of those extra children is? Will all those extra children be in the queue waiting for the proce

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache Sometimes Ignoring MaxSpareServers, Running Out of Memory

2006-09-26 Thread Qingshan Xie
Hi! Joshua, Under the high load condition, if the number of children spawned is over the ServerLimit or MaxClients/ThreadsPerChild, what the status of those extra children is? Will all those extra children be in the queue waiting for the process? Thx, Q.Xie --- Joshua Slive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache Sometimes Ignoring MaxSpareServers, Running Out of Memory

2006-09-23 Thread Joshua Slive
On 9/23/06, Dave Mabe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: OK, the problem happened again and I was able to pull some information from server-status. First of all, here's the appropriate part of my config: MinSpareServers 3 MaxSpareServers 5 StartServers 3 MaxClients 50 MaxRequestsPerChild 30 MaxReque

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache Sometimes Ignoring MaxSpareServers, Running Out of Memory

2006-09-23 Thread Dave Mabe
On 9/23/06, Dave Mabe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 9/22/06, Dave Mabe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/22/06, Joshua Slive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 9/22/06, Dave Mabe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm running Apache from the apache-perl Debian package out of stable. > > > > > > Ever

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache Sometimes Ignoring MaxSpareServers, Running Out of Memory

2006-09-22 Thread Dave Mabe
On 9/22/06, Joshua Slive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 9/22/06, Dave Mabe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running Apache from the apache-perl Debian package out of stable. > > Every so often (just infrequently enough to be very annoying), Apache will > all of the sudden ignore the MaxSpareServer

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache Sometimes Ignoring MaxSpareServers, Running Out of Memory

2006-09-22 Thread Joshua Slive
On 9/22/06, Dave Mabe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm running Apache from the apache-perl Debian package out of stable. Every so often (just infrequently enough to be very annoying), Apache will all of the sudden ignore the MaxSpareServers and start up more and more Apache child processes until i

[EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache Sometimes Ignoring MaxSpareServers, Running Out of Memory

2006-09-22 Thread Dave Mabe
I'm running Apache from the apache-perl Debian package out of stable.Every so often (just infrequently enough to be very annoying), Apache will all of the sudden ignore the MaxSpareServers and start up more and more Apache child processes until it brings the server down.  During normal operation, i