[pydotorg-www] apache on ximinez

[anatoly techtonik]

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 4:33 AM, Richard Jones <richard at python.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Richard Jones <richard at python.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 5:44 AM, Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Apr 06, 2011, skip at pobox.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>> >>>>> "Martin" == Martin v L?wis <martin at v.loewis.de> writes:
>>>>
>>>>     Martin> Am 06.04.2011 10:38, schrieb Richard Jones:
>>>>     >> I've had to kick apache on ximinez in the head twice in the last hour
>>>>     >> or two. It just stopped responding.
>>>>
>>>>     Martin> I did it also a number of times.
>>>>
>>>> I sense a pattern, but I can't quite put my finger on it. ;-)
>>>
>>> Well, I didn't kick apache.
>>
>> I'm not sure what you're getting at there :-)
>>
>> Anyone have any ideas why apache would just stop responding like that?
>> Or how I could diagnose it when it happens again in my timezone?
>
> Just restarted it again. Looking at the various access logs it looks
> like apache just stopped handling requests at 07/Apr/2011:03:23 +0200
>
> Interestingly in the logs *after* the last lines for that time there's
> a whole lotta lines line this:
>
> [snip] [07/Apr/2011:02:38:03 +0200] "GET /pypi?:action=rss HTTP/1.1"
> 500 621 [snip]
>
> and various other timestamps from before the lockup - some of which
> are over an hour older than the lockup time.
>
> So perhaps client connections hanging are causing it to run out of connections?
>
> Is there some way we could configure apache to be more resilient
> against this? My apache-fu is lacking...

mod_wsgi bug?

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anatoly t.