Description of problem: When httpd open more than 2048 FD's (more than 2k vhosts with error and custom logs, for example), mod_perl stops running perl scripts because perl version 5.8.8 has limited I/O FD's of 2048. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Perl 5.8.8-27 mod_perl 2.0.4-6 httpd 2.2.3-31 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create 2k vhosts on httpd with error and custom logs for everyone, so httpd you open more than 2048 FD's. 2. Run a simple perl.pl 'hello world' and watch. Actual results: httpd child will die with this message on error_log: Failed to dup STDIN: No such file or directory. Expected results: I expect to run perl scripts even if i've more than 2k vhosts on httpd. Additional info: Solution? I just got perl 5.8.8-27 SRPM and changed a little bit to 5.8.9. Compiled it and recompiled mod_ssl against. Right now my httpd process has 2102 FD's opened and my 'hello world' perl script runs fine. Perl 5.8.9 doesn't have this limitation. Look at perl-5.8.8/perlio.c: #define PERLIO_MAX_REFCOUNTABLE_FD 2048 Then, at PerlIOUnix_dup() if (fd >= 0 && fd < PERLIO_MAX_REFCOUNTABLE_FD) perl-5.8.9/perlio.c, same function: if (fd >= 0) Could you please update perl version? or at least backport this change from 5.8.9. I didn't test it with x86_64 neither other architectures, but i think shares the same limitation. Thanks in advance.
Thank you for your thorough investigation. I suppose much more probable is using patch if it will be easy fix and easy to test.
The patch which should probably fix it is git commit 22c96fc102ce8ee52778a2d8a7fced27b492c1ee but is quite probable there will be needed more patches because lot of changes between RHEL-5 perl-5.8.8 and perl-5.8.9.
So, RedHat 5.5 is out and we still have this bug?
So, as I said in comment#2, it's unlikely to fix it properly by this one commit. I suggest contact our support for finding the best solution: https://www.redhat.com/apps/support/
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Fix this bug would mean hundreds of changes or better rebase to 5.8.9 #641320. Both possibilities are too intrusive for minor update of RHEL. Closing as wontfix.