Re: could not connect error

mpeters <[email protected]> Wed, 11 Aug 2004 18:11:55 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.apache.mod-log-spread.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>

mpeters wrote:
> Thank you very much. Something else that may or may not be related is 
> that we set up some new boxes with mod_log_spread and after they went 
> into production we started to see a *lot* (meaning 1 or 2 times a 
> minute) of segmentation faults of child processes. We looked at the 
> previous error logs just to make sure, and we didn't see these kind of 
> problems. The other application code (mod_perl stuff) hasn't changed. We 
> turned off the mod_log_spread config directives to check to see if it 
> was something along the way and we still got the same seg faults.
> 
> using apache 1.3.31
> with mod_log_spread 1.04
> 
> We had to try a few tricks to get apache to compile right (find the 
> spread libs) with mod_ssl, mod_perl. Not sure if maybe we did something 
> to make apache unstable or not. I don't know if anyone else has seen 
> this or not or has mod_log_spread working with the rest of the software 
> I mentioned above. Just thought I would ask so that would could 
> eliminate one link in this chain.

Sorry, to post this to the list as it turned out to be 
irrelevant. We traced the problem to call to Apache::warn causing 
the seg faults. We'll be working with that further, but just 
wanted to let everyone know that it wasn't mod_log_spread.

Thanks

> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jose R. Ilabaca wrote:
> 
>> Every time a new apache child goes up this message appears in the log. 
>> When you start apache you have several lines like those, also when a 
>> new child is created. It doesn't mean really a problem, I remember 
>> this question in the group some time ago and it was an "inofensive" 
>> problem.
>> JRI
>> On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 16:35, Dave Weis wrote:
>>
>>> /On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, mpeters wrote:
>>>
>>>> Am I correct in assuming that if my apache error logs show something 
>>>> like this....
>>>> (2)No such file or directory: Could not connect to spread  with 
>>>> private_name ap28474. Error -6
>>>> That mod_log_spread will try and reconnect. We are seeing this error 
>>>> occasionally pop up in the logs. Are we losing any data?
>>>
>>>
>>> We saw this also, I changed ours to put in a loop and print a counter 
>>> of how many times it tried to reconnect. It usually did it once, 
>>> sometimes twice, but straightened out afterwards.
>>>
>>> As far as I know it didn't lose data, though./
>>>
> 

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Michael Peters
Developer
Plus Three, LP