We have a lot of users running Apache worker and prefork. However to be
honest i don't remember anyone that contact me using event. So, as i never
saw a report about this issue using worker and prefork... you can try both
and send us a feedback.
Thanks
Breno
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Rainer Jung <rai...@ki...>wrote:
> On 13.02.2013 19:21, Curtis Wood wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > Yes, mpm-event is experimental - and now with everything coming to
> > light, that may be the whole problem along with the apr not being thread
> > safe it sounds like?
>
> The event MPM itself should not be the problem. The APR libraries were
> originally developed as a basis for Apache 2 and many of the Apache devs
> are also APR devs.
>
> But the threaded nature of the Apache processes when using the event or
> worker MPMs means that all modules must be programmed thread-safe too.
> Most of the popular ones are though.
>
> > After talking it over some we may just go with the prefork.
>
> If that is an option for you, chances are good the problem vanishes.
>
> > On the actual system - sry about that :-P We are on Linux X86_64, CentOS
> > 5.9 - On the extra modules, we have ssl,fcgi,passenger,bw_limited and qos
>
> Ah, lots of 3rd party. You could try to update to latest versions of
> those. I don't have an indication, that those have a problem though.
>
> > On when it happens - it can be at any time, originally when this came to
> > light on a single site VPS, you could randomly click links to trigger it
> > after a few minutes - while, clicking the same link twice would not
> > guarantee anything. On the main servers which get a lot more traffic, it
> > can be anywhere from hours to days.
>
> ACK.
>
> Rainer
>
>
>
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