From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 21 07:27:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA14605 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 07:27:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA14599 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 07:27:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [194.198.43.36]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA08127; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 15:27:23 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) id QAA05098; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 16:27:18 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19971121162718.13505@bitbox.follo.net> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 16:27:18 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund To: Charles Mott Cc: Eivind Eklund , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Serious performance issue with 2.2.5-RELEASE References: <199711211332.OAA03173@bitbox.follo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69e In-Reply-To: ; from Charles Mott on Fri, Nov 21, 1997 at 08:23:58AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, Nov 21, 1997 at 08:23:58AM -0700, Charles Mott wrote: > > You've not had any problems with 2.2.2? We've been having problems > > with 4-5 seconds random hangs on our 2.2.2 webservers, which seems to > > occur mostly on static pages. > > If you're using the apache web server, it has some fairly elaborate > pre-forking and process control. I wouldn't be entirely surprised to see > it have delays if it were near the fork limit or that the number of spare > processes waiting for requests is not large enough. Yes, it is with apache. It is running with no limits, and with MAXUSERS=100 (up from 10, which had the same problems). The same Apache config (exactly) under 2.1-STABLE showed no problems :-( Eivind.