From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 11 5:33:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr (diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr [150.140.141.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5A72D37B405 for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 05:33:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 8385 invoked by uid 1604); 11 Sep 2001 12:32:22 -0000 Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 15:32:22 +0300 (EET DST) From: Balis George To: Institute For Social Ecology Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: httpd in free(): warning: recursive call. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I assume that by the term "threads" you mean processes so i disregard it. There is always the matter of the limit of file descriptors you can have open at any time. You don't mention what other purposes (e.g services) your box runs or what are it's "stats". George On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Institute For Social Ecology wrote: > Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 02:00:18 -0400 > From: Institute For Social Ecology > To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: httpd in free(): warning: recursive call. > > Hello, > > I am very new to Apache administration, and am looking for some > feedback on an apache/freeBSD issue. I have been frequently dealing > with httpd maxing out at well over 150 threads, and running, bringing > my system to a near standstill. My error log confirms that apache is > being maxed out, but also turns up some weird stuff. Actually, when > httpd does max out, the error log pumps out several hundred pages of > this: > > httpd in free(): warning: recursive call. > > and > > httpd in malloc(): warning: recursive call. > > I have looked around to find an explanation for this warning, and have > come up empty handed. Any ideas? > > Any thoughts is greatly appreciated. > > Regards, > > Michael > > > FYI: I am running > > FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE > Apache Version Apache/1.3.17 > Apache Release 10317100 > Apache API Version 19990320 > User/Group nobody(65534)/65534 > Max Requests Per Child: 30 > Keep Alive: on > Max Per Connection: 100 > Timeouts Connection: 300 > Keep-Alive: 15 > Server Root /usr/local/apache > Loaded Modules mod_perl, mod_php4, mod_setenvif, mod_auth, mod_access, > mod_alias, mod_userdir, mod_actions, mod_imap, mod_asis, mod_cgi, > mod_dir, mod_autoindex, mod_include, mod_status, mod_negotiation, > mod_mime, mod_log_config, mod_env, http_core > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Black holes are the result when God devides by zero.. mailto: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message