Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-httpd-users-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 72727 invoked from network); 28 May 2004 12:49:51 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (209.237.227.199) by minotaur-2.apache.org with SMTP; 28 May 2004 12:49:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 54665 invoked by uid 500); 28 May 2004 12:49:13 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-httpd-users-archive@httpd.apache.org Received: (qmail 54549 invoked by uid 500); 28 May 2004 12:49:10 -0000 Mailing-List: contact users-help@httpd.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Reply-To: users@httpd.apache.org list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Delivered-To: mailing list users@httpd.apache.org Received: (qmail 54513 invoked by uid 98); 28 May 2004 12:49:10 -0000 Received: from floeff@arcor.de by hermes.apache.org by uid 82 with qmail-scanner-1.20 (clamuko: 0.70. Clear:RC:0(151.189.20.158):. Processed in 0.391509 secs); 28 May 2004 12:49:10 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: floeff@arcor.de via hermes.apache.org X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.20 (Clear:RC:0(151.189.20.158):. Processed in 0.391509 secs) Received: from unknown (HELO postman.arcor.de) (151.189.20.158) by hermes.apache.org with SMTP; 28 May 2004 12:49:10 -0000 Received: from [192.168.0.5] (pD95DA5C3.dip.t-dialin.net [217.93.165.195]) (authenticated bits=0) by postman.arcor.de (8.13.0.PreAlpha4/8.13.0.PreAlpha4) with ESMTP id i4SCn2ER007986 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 28 May 2004 14:49:03 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <40B7350B.2060806@arcor.de> Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 14:48:11 +0200 From: Florian Effenberger User-Agent: Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) X-Accept-Language: de-de, de-at, de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: users@httpd.apache.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: hermes.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Subject: [users@httpd] PHP as CGI becomes a zombie when loaded too often X-Spam-Rating: minotaur-2.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Sorry for posting this again and again, but I still experience this problem and there seems to be no way for me to solve it. I've got confirmation from others that this problem is not only mine, so please take the time to read this. I've tried Apache 1.3 and 2.0, both on Linux 2.4. I've tried using suEXEC and not using suEXEC, and I even tried modules that stop script execution at a specific load average (tested with 1.00!) or number of processes (tested with 10!). But nothing seems to help in the following case: I run PHP as CGI because I don't want to have world-readable scripts and mod_perchild is not ready yet. When I do a hard reload - i.e. reloading the same script for about 10 seconds continously which should open quite a lot of scripts - I can crash the server. PHP-CGI- processes become zombies, I get a load average of about 90 (!) and it can take up to 30 minutes until the system responds again. This happens even with the simplest PHP scripts like a phpinfo call, but Perl scripts make absolutely no problem. The PHP developers say it's an Apache problem, the Apache developers say it's a PHP problem. So *PLEASE* take the time to review this one again - I'm helpless right now! :-( I know there must be a solution, because some providers run PHP as CGI without problems, but I don't know what it could be. :-( Also see http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29276 --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@httpd.apache.org