From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; it-IT; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030409 Debian/1.2.1-9woody2 Description of problem: About a month ago on a server that handles only a forum (with invision powerboard) we started to have a lot of error for images that doesn't exist (misconfiguration of some skin). At the same time apache started to grow up in memory getting all resources and than slow down the machine, until a service restart! the only error that i can find in the logs (debug mode!!!) are: (104)Connection reset by peer: core_output_filter: writing data to the network and sometimes (only few): (32)Broken pipe: core_output_filter: writing data to the network according to apache docs the first error could be caused by sendfile, but in apache 2.0.40 there is no way to disable this feature. I tried to disable MMAP but the problem still persist. About the fact that not found errors and this problem are related i'm not very sure but it's a fact that about two weeks ago we reduced drastically the errors and apache stopped to start once a day and moved to once a week. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): httpd-2.0.40-11.3 How reproducible: Didn't try Additional info:
The "Connection reset" and "Broken pipe" errors are quite normal for a production web site - this can happen if e.g. someone hits the "Stop" button before a page loads. If you have a script which is using lots of memory - this is not an httpd bug! If you're using PHP make sure the "memory_limit" config option is set in /etc/php.ini - this should help prevent memory leaks.
There is a possibility to pass --without-sendfile to ./configure script. This bug is closed so this is only FYI. Apache 2.0.44 and later has EnableSendfile On|Off option (you need at least Fedora release).