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Subject: [users@httpd] apache returns error 500 under load

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Hi,

i have a setup on OSX Mavericks, Apache/2.2.24 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.24
OpenSSL/0.9.8 utilizing mod_proxy. Mod_proxy then routes data to a tomcat
7.0.42 back end for processing.

To test my app I created a selenium test app, that opens about 10 clients
using FireFox all at once and navigates through the app. It then closes
these clients after a few minutes and then opens a set of 10 again.

Under this load certain requests randomly return error 500. Firefox even
downloads a file in these situations and if I open the file it reads,
server error, error 500, "The server encountered an internal error and was
     unable to complete your request. Either the server is     overloaded
or there was an error in a CGI script." I don't know if the browser is
returning this or apache.

There are no errors in apache error.log that help diagnose this. If I
bypass apache and go directly to tomcat everything works fine.

I tried playing around with maxClients settings and still saw this error. I
even turned off keep-alive and mod_cache. Nothing is working. I suspect
based on the nature of the issue my application is very chatty and I need
to configure apache properly to handle bursts of traffic.

Any pointers? I have spent hours on this without any progress.

Thank you!

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<div dir=3D"ltr">Hi,<div><br></div>i have a setup on OSX Mavericks, Apache/=
2.2.24 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.24 OpenSSL/0.9.8 utilizing mod_proxy. Mod_proxy t=
hen routes data to a tomcat 7.0.42 back end for processing. <br><br>To test=
 my app I created a selenium test app, that opens about 10 clients using Fi=
reFox all at once and navigates through the app. It then closes these clien=
ts after a few minutes and then opens a set of 10 again.<br>
<br>Under this load certain requests randomly return error 500. Firefox eve=
n downloads a file in these situations and if I open the file it reads, ser=
ver error, error 500, &quot;The server encountered an internal error and wa=
s =A0 =A0 =A0unable to complete your request. Either the server is =A0 =A0 =
overloaded or there was an error in a CGI script.&quot; I don&#39;t know if=
 the browser is returning this or apache.<br>
<br>There are no errors in apache error.log that help diagnose this. If I b=
ypass apache and go directly to tomcat everything works fine.<div><br></div=
><div>I tried playing around with maxClients settings and still saw this er=
ror. I even turned off keep-alive and mod_cache. Nothing is working. I susp=
ect based on the nature of the issue my application is very chatty and I ne=
ed to configure apache properly to handle bursts of traffic.=A0</div>
<div><br></div><div>Any pointers? I have spent hours on this without any pr=
ogress.=A0</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you!</div></div>

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