On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 10:05:46AM -0400, Matthew Nuzum wrote:
>    I  have  two physical servers, each has at least one vserver running a
>    RedHat  7.3 distribution that acts as a webserver running the standard
>    RedHat apache RPMs.
> 
> 
>    About every other Sunday morning at 4:00 am apache dies with something
>    like this in the error log:
> 
>    [Sun  Oct  19  04:02:02 2003] [warn] child process 20017 did not exit,
>    sending another SIGHUP
> 
>    [Sun  Oct  19  04:02:03 2003] [notice] SIGHUP received.  Attempting to
>    restart
> 
>    The  only  thing  I  can  think of is that the default log rotation is
>    weekly.   Typically,  the  server load is very low on at 4:00 am, so I
>    don't know why apache would die at this time.
> 
>    For  some  time  I've  been  running  one  vserver *not as a vserver*,
>    meaning  that  instead  of  using  a vserver kernel, I just created an
>    alias  on a network card and then did "chroot /vserver/testserver" and
>    started  apache manually.  It ran fine for months that way.  Now, I've
>    installed  a  vserver kernel and run this as a true vserver.  All of a
>    sudden,  with  absolutely  NO  configuration  changes  to  the vserver
>    what-so-ever it starts exhibiting this problem.
> 
> 
>    Here is the configuration for the vserver:
> 
>    # Description: Test Server
>            IPROOT="eth1:192.168.0.10/255.255.255.0"
>            IPROOTDEV="eth1"
>            S_HOSTNAME=www.obfuscated
>    ONBOOT=yes
>    S_DOMAINNAME=
>    S_NICE=
>    S_FLAGS="lock nproc"
>    ULIMIT="-H -u 1000"
>    S_CAPS=""
> 
>    Any  suggestions?   I  do  have  to  say,  I  can re-start some of the
>    vservers,  but  there  are  a few that cannot be restarted unless it's
>    absolutely last-resort.

I don't see any reason for apache to fail, but ...

>    Host OS is RedHat 8 and Kernel is:
> 
>    Linux  version 2.4.20ctx-17 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (version gcc
>    3.2  20020903  (Red  Hat  Linux 8.0 3.2-7)) #1 dim mar 30 12:32:24 EST
>    2003

please try with 2.4.22 or 2.4.23-pre7 and c17f ...
http://vserver.13thfloor.at/Stuff/patch-2.4.22-c17f.diff.bz2
http://vserver.13thfloor.at/Stuff/patch-2.4.23-pre7-c17f.diff.bz2

and make sure to use  ULIMIT="-HS -u 1000"

HTH,
Herbert

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