From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Jan 7 12: 4:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.aye.net (phoenix.aye.net [198.7.192.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DB5A114DAE for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2000 12:03:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from barrett@aye.net) Received: (qmail 16685 invoked by uid 1000); 7 Jan 2000 20:02:57 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 7 Jan 2000 20:02:57 -0000 Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 15:02:57 -0500 (EST) From: Barrett Richardson To: "Ian R. Justman" Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, Steve Hardin , Eric Paul , tague@win.net Subject: Re: Apache, load-balancing, and httpd proccesses stuck in the D state In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Ian R. Justman wrote: > > Hi, all. > > We're running six PIII/500s behind two Foundry ServerIron layer 4 switches > to do load balancing for our new webservers, all of which using a common > filestore, a NetApp F720. The machines are all running FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE > along with Apache 1.3.9+FP2K extensions. > > Periodically, some httpd processes will get stuck in the D state, and I > have a feeling that causes some sites with FP extensions and some CGI > sites to get stuck, spewing where it's able, "Internal server error" > waiting for output from a given script. > > Any thoughts on this one? Yup, NFS. Is anybody *NOT* having this problem with an Apache/FP2K/NetApp combination? - Barrett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message