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apache hangs after some hours of running

• Additional Comments From dcook@cookware.com 2002-07-30 15:14 ------- Ok... The good news? We've fixed the problem on our end. The bad news? We have no idea what the problem actually is.

My last report to you stated that we separated SSL out of our config and put it in it's own separate apache config (that meant we were running 4 total apaches).

Last thursday we took the apache config that was still hanging and split it right down the middle, putting half the clients into a new (identical) configuration. We also noted that a couple of the configurations were sharing the same error/hit log files - which probably isn't the coolest thing - so we fixed that by making sure each config was writing to different log files.

So this means we have 5 apaches. 2 that are specific to two clients., a 3rd which is SSL only, and the remaining two which splits our remaining hundred-and-so virtuals down the middle.

Since thursday we have seen no hanging situations whatsoever. Since we were seeing a hang ALWAYS within 48 hours, we suspect the problem is solved (for us at least).

The solution thus EITHER has to do with the fact that multiple configs were using some of the same log files (unlikely) or that the one config had soooo many virtual hosts in it (likely). Keeping in mind that we USED to run with just one config with all of them in it, under a previous version of Apache, this thus seems to me to be something different in the code base that changed when I split the remaining config down the middle (both config files are IDENTICAL in all respects exept the name of the log files and the actual virtual hosts involved).

FYI, the old config (prior to the split down the middle) had 119 virtual host statements in it. The new split configs have 55 in one and 64 in the other. With 119, we had the hang... with 55 / 64 we do not experience the hang.

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