On Thu, 2 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> First of all thank you for your interest.
> I will download the latest code and try this out. I do have the debug mode 
> enabled so I will sent you any errors (although I have not noticed anything 
> special). 
> I don't think though that I can reproduce the problem myself. 
> About the gdb, I have no experience of how to attach to the process but I will 
> do my best to find a colleague that does.

Short course on gdb:

ps -aux |grep httpd
( or ps -fea )

Find the PID of the process that takes all the CPU, then

gdb httpd PID
and inside do a 'bt' ( backtrace ), it'll generate a stacktrace 
we can use.


Costin

> Thanks,
> Costas
> > 
> > Can you try the CVS head, and see if it still happens ?
> > If so, can you give us more details that would allow to
> > reproduce it ? 
> > 
> > Messages like 'it doesn't work for me, you figure out why'
> > are not very helpfull.
> > 
> > At least enable the debug messages, let it run until it
> > hungs, then maybe trim the log and send the last entries.
> > Or use gdb to attach to the problem process and do a 
> > stack trace. 
> > 
> > Costin
> > 
> > On Wed, 1 May 2002, Costas Stergiou wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > I have an installation of Apache 1.3.19 + Tomcat 4.0.3
> > > on a aix4.3 machine with IBM JDK 1.3.0. I have two tomcat
> > > engines and I use the lb worker of mod_jk to balance user
> > > request to these two engines. 
> > > 
> > > The problem is that some httpd processes seem to go
> > > into some cpu performance tasks and start consuming all
> > > the cpu of the machine (2processors, 2GB mem). After
> > > some time almost all available CPU is consumed by the
> > > apache processes. If I kill the child processes that cause
> > > the problem, the load falls back to normal. At the same time,
> > > I notice that I have excessive CPU usage in one of the
> > > tomcat instances.
> > > 
> > > The problem keeps recurring all the time (almost every hour).
> > > I read in the mail-archives about similar problems but I didn't 
> > > find a good answer. 
> > > 
> > > The version of mod_jk is the one in jakarta-tomcat-connectors-4.0.2.01
> > > I compiled the source on the same machine (aix).
> > > 
> > > I have to say that I have noticed similar problems on many more 
> > > apache installations that have similar installations (apache, lb + 
> > > 2 or more tomcat engines) with older versions of mod_jk and tomcat.
> > > 
> > > Actually, the above problem makes the lb worker unusable since 
> > > I cannot trust the setup in my production environment. 
> > > 
> > > Please, any idea or patches or whatever will be very helpful.
> > > Thanks very much for any ideas,
> > > Costas
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
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