Re: [us...@httpd] apache problems with number of cgi requests

2009-08-03 Thread André Warnier
Digvijoy Chatterjee wrote: So there are two scripts I am using as a test firefox 3.0.8 , launch test.cgi and you can see it provides a link to another cgi script which sleeps for 60 seconds. I launch this link again and again in a new tab/window , but any given time only one process has been star

Re: [us...@httpd] apache problems with number of cgi requests

2009-08-03 Thread Digvijoy Chatterjee
So there are two scripts I am using as a test firefox 3.0.8 , launch test.cgi and you can see it provides a link to another cgi script which sleeps for 60 seconds. I launch this link again and again in a new tab/window , but any given time only one process has been started by apache on the host. H

Re: [us...@httpd] apache problems with number of cgi requests

2009-08-01 Thread André Warnier
Digvijoy Chatterjee wrote: I already tried that and it does not help . Ok then. What you report is of course not the way it should work. If Apache was always working that way, then half the hundreds of thousands of Apache servers on this planet woould be on their knees, including mine. And

Re: [us...@httpd] apache problems with number of cgi requests

2009-08-01 Thread Digvijoy Chatterjee
I already tried that and it does not help . On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 4:34 PM, André Warnier wrote: > Digvijoy Chatterjee wrote: >> >> Ok so mod_status helped me make an interesting observation : >> >> There is only one child picking up the request for sleep.cgi when i >> launch it new in new tabs/

Re: [us...@httpd] apache problems with number of cgi requests

2009-08-01 Thread André Warnier
Digvijoy Chatterjee wrote: Ok so mod_status helped me make an interesting observation : There is only one child picking up the request for sleep.cgi when i launch it new in new tabs/ new windows, rest are children all waiting, and picking the next requests when this one gets done . I will repe

Re: [us...@httpd] apache problems with number of cgi requests

2009-08-01 Thread Digvijoy Chatterjee
Ok so mod_status helped me make an interesting observation : There is only one child picking up the request for sleep.cgi when i launch it new in new tabs/ new windows, rest are children all waiting, and picking the next requests when this one gets done . Srv PID Acc M CPU S

Re: [us...@httpd] apache problems with number of cgi requests

2009-07-30 Thread André Warnier
Digvijoy Chatterjee wrote: Apache does not process them concurrently but serially all of them go to completion .( no error code etc..) One request runs , other requests wait to get processed, and so on. Have you tried KeepAlive off ? ---

Re: [us...@httpd] apache problems with number of cgi requests

2009-07-29 Thread Digvijoy Chatterjee
Apache does not process them concurrently but serially all of them go to completion .( no error code etc..) One request runs , other requests wait to get processed, and so on. while i try mod_status to check ExtendedStatus I have been able to simplify our problem as below. Just put test.cgi and

Re: [us...@httpd] apache problems with number of cgi requests

2009-07-29 Thread Chandranshu .
Hi Digz Meanwhile, when you say that "apache will not service any other CGI requests", what exactly do you mean? Did you mean that your further HTTP requests returned with 503 or some other error code? Or do they just wait around for a long time before returning any data? You should enable mod_st

[us...@httpd] apache problems with number of cgi requests

2009-07-29 Thread Digvijoy Chatterjee
Hi, We are running apache 2.0.35 on RHEL4 running in prefork mode. Its a standard apache configuration for running cgi scripts. I can send it if required The behaviour we are observing with apache is after servicing 2 cgi requests which (do a long database lookup ~5 minutes) apache will not servi