#1991 Multiple Processes Upon Usage (miniserv.pl forks?)

[Joe]

I have used webmin for quite a long time now and I have
never seen this before. I recently installed 1.80 on two
boxes (one an upgrade and the other was a fresh
install). They installed properly and were configured
properly. When they are started, the miniserv.pl spawns
properly as well. However, when I login into webmin and
start using it, the process splits and causes multiple
miniserv.pl processes to occur. I used it for several
minutes recently and when I looked in ssh there were
38 miniserv.pl processes. Any ideas?

[Jamie Cameron]

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Often some browsers will hold open multiple connections to
the server, each of which will have a miniserv.pl process.
Do these extra processes go away if you quit your browser,
or if you wait 10 minutes?

[Joe]

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You have to wait a few minutes and the processes die out.
You can have one browser open and just refresh the page
and it keeps spawning more and more miniserver.pl. Also, I
forgot to mention that we are using FreeBSD 5.3.

[Jamie Cameron]

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Which browser are you using there?

[Joe]

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Doesn't matter which browser. Tried several versions of IE
and Firefox as well as the latest Opera. All browsers did it.

[Jamie Cameron]

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One thing you could try is adding the line
nokeepalive=1
to /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf , and then re-starting Webmin.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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same problem, multiples (about 10 to 15) processes
miniserv.pl after one nignt, without any connection.
adding nokeepalive=1 does'nt resolve the problem

my os:
trustix v2
webmin 1.210

[Jamie Cameron]

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The next Webmin release will include some updates that
should hopefully address this issue, by timing out clients
that make partial requests.
Some attacks recently against another service (NDMP) that
uses port 10000 have been causing this..