Topic: Apache has long unbreakable processes

[Prometheus]

Please help! Our server-status shows us the @eternal@ processes! Here is example

210-0 - 0/0/9 . 0.00 3571 3 0.0 0.00 0.01 79.111.85.7 * GET /phpBB2/index.php HTTP/1.0
216-0 - 0/0/1 . 0.05 3579 92 0.0 0.00 0.00 80.81.208.68 * GET /forum/photo_100_768_small HTTP/1.1
219-0 - 0/0/2 . 0.00 3578 9 0.0 0.00 0.00 212.13.133.82 * POST /_banex/6106276111.xml HTTP/1.1

Where SS is more than several thousands! How we can prevent this problem?

Thank you. Waiting for answer.

[James Blond]

How is that problem? Because your apache does not sending anymore.


You can prevent that with disabling Keep Alive I think.

[Prometheus]

But what is the reason of appearing of such long connections? Is it error somewhere? On other Apaches this error is also appearing or not?

Keep-Alive Extension is useful for clients or not? By turning it off we increasing the time of loading pages by several requests insteed one?

Thank you.

[James Blond]

I don't know the reason for that long process, but after your post I watched my server and I see sometimes requests longer than 26.000 seconds. But if there isn't a "W" for sending reply I don't see there a need to prevent that.

Keep Alive is better for your server, cause the client don't have to etablish a new connection to your server for each request.

[Prometheus]

thank you. Now we turned off KeepAlive. Will watch.