Re: fastcgi echo hangs if called via form
Sonya Rikhtverchik (rikhtver@OpenMarket.com)
Thu, 25 Sep 1997 10:28:03 -0400
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To: fastcgi-developers@OpenMarket.com
Subject: Re: fastcgi echo hangs if called via form
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 10:28:03 -0400
From: Sonya Rikhtverchik <rikhtver@OpenMarket.com>
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Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 18:14:01 -0700
From: Devin Ben-Hur <dbenhur@egames.com>
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To: Kelly Carney <kcarney@gomer.stortek.com>
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Subject: Re: fastcgi echo hangs if called via form
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Kelly Carney wrote:
> 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.
Please let me know if you figure out the problem. I backed
out of fcgidk 2.x and am using 1.5.x because I couldn't fix
the POST problem, but I'd rather use newer code.
> 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.
Yeah, I'm similarly frustrated. I'm running Perl5.004_1 w/sfio and
FCGI.pm 0.28 (the last version to use the 1.5 libs) and FCGI-dk 1.5.x
thru cgi-fcgi under SunOS 4.1.4 w/Netscape Commerce on the site in my
.sig. We're getting about 3000 requests/day (which peaks at about
3/second tho averaging only 2/minute). I've done some hacking to fix and
instument cgi-fcgi 1.5.x but I still get anomolous behavior and hangs
2-6 times/day.
Until I get these problems sorted out, I've got a cron'd monitor program
that checks to see if the site's hung every 3 minutes and if it's not
responding, it kills and restarts the FCGI app-server(s).
I'm moving to Solaris & Apache soon, and I hope FCGI works better there,
though I'll still be using the cgi-fcgi shim because the ISP hosting our
site doesn't trust the mod_fastcgi stuff for Apache.
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Devin Ben-Hur <dbenhur@egames.com>
eGames.com, Inc. http://www.egames.com/ The Ultimate Game Store
"Dark is the suede that mows like a harvest" -- Martian Ambassador
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