Bug 51741 – Apache is unable to handle more than 1024 fd.

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Bug 51741 - Apache is unable to handle more than 1024 fd.

Summary:	Apache is unable to handle more than 1024 fd.

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	apache (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.1
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	low Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Joe Orton
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Reported:	2001-08-14 12:32 EDT by Florian Brand
Modified:	2007-03-26 23:48 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2004-09-21 06:07:44 EDT
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Description Florian Brand 2001-08-14 12:32:48 EDT

Description of problem:
Apache is compiled with a FD_SIZE of 1024. If you have many virtual hosts (
510+) with seperate log files all filedescriptors are used for the log
files. ( ulimit -H -n 8000, so the kernel is not the problem)

Apache can request more fds from the kernel and for the logfiles it does
work. However for allocating the sockets Apache checks FD_SIZE and dies.


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create let4s say 100 virtual hosts with seperate log files.
2. try to start apache
	

Actual Results:  No open sockets, Apache dead.

Expected Results:  Apache available.

Additional info:

This problem occurs of course only for larger ISPs.
since ulimits protects the system perfectly IMHO the FD_SIZE limit can be
removed entirely 
or at least enlarged to a higher value, or set dynamicly acording to the
actual ulimit/max_files settings of the kernel

Comment 1 Florian Brand 2001-08-15 12:37:28 EDT

mmm, typo in the original bug form.
Actually it is FD_SETSIZE that is offending.
Comes from /usr/include/linux/posix_types.h __FD_SET_SIZE

Comment 2 Joe Orton 2004-09-21 06:07:44 EDT

Thanks for the report.  This bug is no longer present in the Apache
httpd 2.0 packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora Core.

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