Re: webmin-0.990-1 spawns several processes and locks server

[Andrew K. <ak...@ra...>]

This might be a good short-term fix, except, my server spawns several
webmin processes in short order which brings the server down in about
5-10 seconds (not minutes). Initially, I thought perhaps I was short of
memory. I added memory and webmin sucked it right up. Not a memory
problem.

-Andrew
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Cooper" <jo...@sw...>
To: <web...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 9:41 PM
Subject: Re: webmin-0.990-1 spawns several processes and locks server


> This one is a weird issue, and one that I've seen quite a few times now,
> but haven't reproduced it lately myself (but I still have a client that
> can trigger it on his machine--while I cannot).
>
> I was able to make it happen in the past with Netscape 6.0, but these
> days, neither Mozilla or current Netscape makes it happen for me.
> Another client /always/ has about 25 Webmin processes on his machine,
> and I don't know where they're coming from.  Darnedest thing I've seen
> in a while...
>
> Jamie, would it be possible to get a forced timeout on child miniserv.pl
> processes if they don't do something for some number of minutes?  It is
> just a simple 'process per connection' server, isn't it?  I know that
> webmin spawning processes that don't end can cause it to hang around,
> but if after 5 minutes something hasn't returned, the browser has
> probably timed out the request already anyway.  So no use waiting for a
> long process if there will be no one around to see it finish.  Just a
> thought.
>
> Andrew Kornak wrote:
> > I apologize, I should have mentioned that I have used webmin with
> > IE and tried Netscape 7 now to verify it wasn't a browser issue. I will
> > try other browsers if you think it is still a browser issue. But, I
> > personally
> > don't believe it's a browser issue.
> >
> > -Andrew
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Andrew Kornak" <ak...@ra...>
> > To: <web...@li...>
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 9:11 PM
> > Subject: Re: webmin-0.990-1 spawns several processes and locks server
> >
> >
> >
> >>I just tried it with netscape 7.0 and the same thing happened.
> >>Server almost died before I killed the browser and stopped webmin.
> >>
> >>-Andrew
> >>----- Original Message -----
> >>From: "Jamie Cameron" <jca...@we...>
> >>To: <web...@li...>
> >>Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 8:33 PM
> >>Subject: Re: webmin-0.990-1 spawns several processes and locks server
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>You aren't the first person to report this, but I have been unable to
> >>>re-produce it on my own systems in order to solve it. I suspect it may
> >>>be triggered by certain browsers .. which browser are you using, and
> >>
> > does
> >
> >>>it still happen if you try a different one?
>
>
> --
> Joe Cooper <jo...@sw...>
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