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List:       apache-modperl
Subject:    Re: Help Debugging Windows Server 2003 Win32 + Apache2.2 + mod_perl + Activestate Pelr 5.8.8 ErrorID
From:       "Randolf Richardson" <randolf () modperl ! pl>
Date:       2011-07-11 22:42:59
Message-ID: 4E1B7C73.24232.772415 () randolf ! modperl ! pl
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> awarnier wrote:
> 
> > <snip>
> > 
> > What happens if you disable Apache2::Reload ?
> 
> 48 hours continuous operations now without a single glitch at all. Almost
> certain that Apache2::Reload was not the root cause, but it was certainly
> heavily implicated in the problem and resultant instability. If anyone's
> interested in a crash dump I can re-enable this module temporarily and try
> and generate one for you.

	I experienced similar problems many years ago with Apache2::Reload 
in a Microsoft Windows environment.  Although disabling 
Apache2::Reload did reduce the problem, it didn't completely 
eliminate it and instability continued, although much less frequently 
and after much longer time periods.

	After having additional troubles with .DLL files and the 
"perl.exe.manifest" file, I finally abandoned Windows and now run 
everything under NetBSD Unix which simply doesn't exhibit these 
problems for me...

	I know this probably isn't the most constructive solution for you, 
but it's good to know that there are other options.  I suspect that 
there was some problem either with Apache HTTPd or one of its modules 
(and I haven't ruled out ModPerl 2 or APR 2), or MS-Windows itself.

	The main reason I gave up on Windows is that each OS version 
exhibited different patterns of when and how the crashing occurred.  
On one system I saw blue screens, on another the system would just 
stop responding (and there were less than 10 simultaneous connections 
at any one time due to limits on the external firewall, so this 
wasn't it either), and then on another I had problems with Apache 
HTTPd just crashing with a variety of different error codes in the 
Windows Event Viewer thingy.  I could not narrow down specific 
results to a particular version of Windows, but Unix did solve the 
problem for me while also yielding better performance so I decided to 
just ignore this problem and [mostly] forget about it.

Randolf Richardson - randolf@inter-corporate.com
Inter-Corporate Computer & Network Services, Inc.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
http://www.inter-corporate.com


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