Hi I'm currently facing a problem which I can't find any help for. Every once in a while, my webserver doesn't respond to requests anymore, i.e. the browser simply keeps on loading but doesn't get any data.
Using the status mod I found that in such a situation every possible "slot" is being used by requests staying in "..reading.." status. After restarting apache all the pending requests get processed but after a few seconds all the slots are being blocked by the "..reading.." status again. After some tests I could reproduce the situation with simply initiating multiple telnet session to the webserver without sending any data. Every such request blocks a slot for the default timeout of 300 seconds. Is this common behaviour? If so, how to prevent it? As I understand the issue it's a very simple DoS as it neither does require a lot of cpu nor bandwidth on the client side. The only solutions I can see is lowering the timeout and increasing MaxClients. Although a higher MaxClients probably won't help much, because it's easy to start hundreds of sessions. Regarding timeout - can I lower this drastically to about 5 secs without creating new problems? I'm using Apache 2.0.54 from Debian Sarge. Here's a screenshot of the status page: http://img520.imageshack.us/my.php?image=statushi3.png Any help appreciated Thanks, Ben --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
