On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Edward Z. Yang <ezyang@mit.edu> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> We recently switched from Fedora 11 to Fedora 13, and were quite
> puzzled by the fact that our servers, despite running on all the
> same hardware, were being extremely hosed. We tracked down the
> problem to continually spawning FastCGI processes: one virtualhost had
> 200 of dispatch.fcgi running, by our count! No unusual messages
> were found in the error log.
Do you have some sort of mass vhost configuration, or is ServerName not set?
Have a look at http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=939472
I suggest trying mod_fcgid trunk anyway, as that commit changes the
implementation of the one you identified.
>
> We did a little snooping and found that downgrading from 2.3.5 to 2.2
> fixed the problem. We think that the bug might have been caused
> by this commit:
>
> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=753578
>
> A similar bug was reported here, but it's been marked FIXED
> and we don't think it addresses our issue.
>
> https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48981
>
> Please let us know if we should submit another bug report,
> or provide more debugging info.
>
> Name : mod_fcgid
> Arch : x86_64
> Version : 2.2
> Release : 13.fc12
> Size : 130 k
> Repo : installed
> Summary : Apache2 module for high-performance server-side
> : scripting
> URL : http://fastcgi.coremail.cn/
> License : GPL+
> Description : mod_fcgid is a binary-compatible alternative to
> : the Apache module mod_fastcgi. mod_fcgid has a
> : new process management strategy, which
> : concentrates on reducing the number of fastcgi
> : servers, and kicking out corrupt fastcgi servers
> : as soon as possible.
>
> Available Packages
> Name : mod_fcgid
> Arch : x86_64
> Version : 2.3.5
> Release : 1.fc13
> Size : 68 k
> Repo : fedora
> Summary : FastCGI interface module for Apache 2
> URL : http://httpd.apache.org/mod_fcgid/
> License : ASL 2.0
> Description : mod_fcgid is a binary-compatible alternative to
> : the Apache module mod_fastcgi. mod_fcgid has a
> : new process management strategy, which
> : concentrates on reducing the number of fastcgi
> : servers, and kicking out corrupt fastcgi servers
> : as soon as possible.
>
> Cheers,
> Edward
>
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