Re: [ic] mod_interchange and Apache MaxClients

["John1" <suppressed>]

On Thursday, November 17, 2005 4:08 PM, suppressed wrote:

> > From: suppressed
> > [mailto:interchange-users- suppressed On Behalf Of
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> > Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 5:45 AM
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 10:46:37AM -0000, John1 wrote:
> >
> > > In effect, I think I have verified that Apache doesn't start
> > > responding again even if port 80 were to be blocked.  Once
> > > MaxClients has been hit Apache stops servicing requests as it won't
> > > spawn any more processes and for whatever reason non of the Apache
> > > processes ever die after this point, even if the server is left for
> > > many hours over night when I know the traffic to my site is very
> > > low indeed.  Ron & Jeff - do you also see this effect?
> >
> > Yes, none of the servers die.  I can also add that the event is
> > predicated by mod_interchange and IC failing to communicate and
> > holding apache children open.  During this initial period, the web
> > server will serve non-IC content but any requests for IC pages
> > "freeze up".  As requests for IC pages stack up, MaxClients is
> > eventually reached and apache stops serving requests entirely.
> >
> > One of the reasons I never mentioned the issue before is because I am
> > running the IC 4.8 series .  I am pretty sure a lot of the
> > process-forking code was improved between 4.8 and the current version
> > and those improvements could very well resolve the issue.
>
> I'm running the 4.8 series as well and unfortunately we have a lot of
> custom code in the server portion that we'd need to break out if we
> were to upgrade IC at this point.  We are doing a complete site
> rewrite that is based off of 5.3.x, so we are trying not to do two
> upgrades if possible.
>
> We also cannot run in High traffic mode to see if the traffic mode is
> part of the problem because in low and high traffic mode we get double
> charges and sendmail/pgp can fail.
>
> Jeff and John have you tried high or low traffic mode to see if the
> issue goes away in those modes?
I will try in high traffic mode in few days time once my payment service 
providers problems have settled dow.  But, I hope I don't get loads of 
double charges :-o 


		
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