apache exiting on signal 6

[Joe Auty]

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Forgot to mention, I'm using Apache with the prefork MPM.


On Jan 20, 2007, at 5:16 AM, Joe Auty wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've seen a lot of information on Google about this error message  
> I've been seeing a lot of in my logs:
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>> pid 11443 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 6
>> pid 11454 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 6
>> pid 11447 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 6
>> pid 11442 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 6
>> pid 11527 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 6
>> pid 11525 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 6
>> pid 11523 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 6
>> pid 11756 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 6
>> pid 11755 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 6
>> pid 11828 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 6
>>
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> Many of these pages point to resource limits issues, but I'm a  
> little puzzled.
>
> I do have some httpd processes that have been taking around 30 -  
> 40% of my CPU (although not constantly), but I believe I generally  
> have a decent amount of free RAM (my snmp daemon doesn't seem to  
> log memory consumption, unfortunately).
>
> # limits -d
> Resource limits (current):
>   datasize           524288 kb
>
> If this is a resource limits issue, what is the best way to track  
> down this issue? I have tried raising Apache's MaxClients, but this  
> hasn't helped.
>
> I've also seen some info which suggests that this might be an  
> Apache bug of some sort, but I've seen this in both Apache 1.3 and  
> 2.0. Right now, I'm running 2.0.59 with eAccelerator.
>
> I guess the next step might be to try disabling eAccelerator...  
> I'll let you know if this helps. In the meantime, if you have any  
> other suggestions they would be welcome!
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> Joe Auty
> NetMusician: web publishing software for musicians
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> joe at netmusician.org
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