Re: fastcgi echo hangs if called via form

Kelly Carney (kcarney@gomer.stortek.com)
Tue, 23 Sep 1997 17:22:09 -0600 

Message-Id: <34284F21.779E@gomer.stortek.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 17:22:09 -0600
From: Kelly Carney <kcarney@gomer.stortek.com>
To: dbenhur@egames.com
Subject: Re: fastcgi echo hangs if called via form

Thanks for the problem verification.  I'm never quite sure if it's
just me or not with this stuff.

FYI, I sent Stan (the main man) a stack dump and a couple truss
(system call traces) files that show the hanging process getting
stuck on a call to poll().  Looks like there should have been one
more file descriptor being polled.  Hope that's a clue as to what's
really going wrong.

I REALLY need this to stuff to work better.  We have things setup
so we get paged when our application hangs.  Happening 1 to 5 times
a day now.  It'll only get worse.  

                    Kelly
                  
Devin Ben-Hur wrote:
> 
> Sonya Rikhtverchik wrote:
> > From: Kelly Carney <Kelly_Carney@stortek.com>
> > Subject: fastcgi echo hangs if called via form
> >
> > Can someone verify this problem.  It's simple to demonstrate
> > and it's driving me crazy.
> >
> > A link that uses the fastcgi "echo" (Perl or C version) example
> > program works fine.  But a FORM action set to call the fastcgi
> > echo program will hang.
> >
> > My current setup:
> >    perl5.004 compiled with sfio
> >    fastcgi library 2.01b2.1 (from http://fastcgi.idle.com/ )
> >       cgi-fcgi with Netscape Server 2.0 (also have 3.0)
> >    FCGI.pm 0.31
> >    Solaris 5.4 (I also have 5.5.1 available)
> >
> > Using fastcgi 1.5.2 cgi-fcgi works fine!
> 
> I ran into this problem too using cgi-fcgi with Netscape Commerce Server
> & SunOS 4.1.2.  The 2.x version of the fastcgi kit would hang on any
> POST (though form GETs worked fine).  Going back to the 1.5x kit worked
> fine with POSTs.
> 
> > I'd appreciate any ideas on how to debug this problem.  I've been
> > using "sudo truss -rall -wall -p pid" to connect to running fastcgi
> > processes then look through the system calls for clues.  But first,
> > let me know if this is busted for anyone else.
> 
> It's busted for me.  I'm not sure about debugging. I'm moving my
> site to Solaris+Apache soon so I'll trade this one for a different set
> of problems :(
> 
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