Bugzilla Bug 163162

Name        : apache
Version     : 2.0.58
Release     : 2                                   Slot: 2
Install date: Tue Sep 12 12:33:59 2006      Build Host: your
Group       : net-www                          License: Apache-2.0
Size        : 3013804
Packager    : kloeri
URL         : http://httpd.apache.org/
Summary     : The Apache Web Server

USE flags: apache2 mpm-worker ssl threads

I have Apache 2 providing web application services (using PHP) and the
processes get large due to the amount of data that the scripts maintain.  This
apparently causing the Apache's processes to take their merry time in shutting
down.

The problem is this (paraphrase):

# /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
 * Stopping apache2 ...                                                   [ ok
]
(apache is already running)
 * Starting apache2 ...                                                   [ !!
]

This could be implemented as a simple fix to /etc/conf.d/apache by specifying a
DELAY_FOR_RESTART=5, where the script would sleep 5 seconds before trying to
restart the service.  Otherwise, a zap, then start is necessary.  It doesn't
happen all the time (when the processes aren't so large), but on this AMD64
system, Apache processes can grow to about 400M RSS with about six or so
hanging around in memory.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. see description
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
see description

Expected Results:  
see description

Portage 2.1.1-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4,
2.6.18-gentoo-r2-EM64T x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo-r2-EM64T x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6
Last Sync: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:20:01 +0000
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-java/java-config: [Not Present]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.3
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/bind"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg ccache confcache distlocks metadata-transfer
sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="en_US"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 7zip acpi adns alsa_cards_ali5451 alsa_cards_als4000
alsa_cards_atiixp alsa_cards_atiixp-modem alsa_cards_bt87x alsa_cards_ca0106
alsa_cards_cmipci alsa_cards_emu10k1x alsa_cards_ens1370 alsa_cards_ens1371
alsa_cards_es1938 alsa_cards_es1968 alsa_cards_fm801 alsa_cards_hda-intel
alsa_cards_intel8x0 alsa_cards_intel8x0m alsa_cards_maestro3 alsa_cards_trident
alsa_cards_usb-audio alsa_cards_via82xx alsa_cards_via82xx-modem
alsa_cards_ymfpci alsa_pcm_plugins_adpcm alsa_pcm_plugins_alaw
alsa_pcm_plugins_asym alsa_pcm_plugins_copy alsa_pcm_plugins_dmix
alsa_pcm_plugins_dshare alsa_pcm_plugins_dsnoop alsa_pcm_plugins_empty
alsa_pcm_plugins_extplug alsa_pcm_plugins_file alsa_pcm_plugins_hooks
alsa_pcm_plugins_iec958 alsa_pcm_plugins_ioplug alsa_pcm_plugins_ladspa
alsa_pcm_plugins_lfloat alsa_pcm_plugins_linear alsa_pcm_plugins_meter
alsa_pcm_plugins_mulaw alsa_pcm_plugins_multi alsa_pcm_plugins_null
alsa_pcm_plugins_plug alsa_pcm_plugins_rate alsa_pcm_plugins_route
alsa_pcm_plugins_share alsa_pcm_plugins_shm alsa_pcm_plugins_softvol apache2
apm async automount bash-completion berkdb bzip2 ccache cdr clamav clearpasswd
cli cracklib crypt css curl dio dlloader dri dvd dvdr eds elibc_glibc emboss
encode expat foomaticdb ftp fuse gd gif glibc-omitfp gpm hash hddtemp high-ints
iconv idea imagemagick imap innodb inode input_devices_evdev
input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipfilter jfs john kernel_linux
lcd_devices_bayrad lcd_devices_cfontz lcd_devices_cfontz633 lcd_devices_glk
lcd_devices_hd44780 lcd_devices_lb216 lcd_devices_lcdm001 lcd_devices_mtxorb
lcd_devices_ncurses lcd_devices_text logrotate logwatch lzo lzw lzw-tiff mbox
mhash milter mime mmap mpm-worker multiuser mysql ncurses nfs nls nptl nptlonly
ntfs office pam pam_chroot pcntl pcre perl perlsuid php pop3d posix procmail
python qt3 qt4 readline reflection reiser4 reiserfs rpc samba sasl scp sendmail
sensord session sftp sharedmem smp sockets spamassassin spell spl sse-filters
ssl suidcheck syslog szip tcpd threads tiff tomsfastmath unzip urandom usb
userland_GNU video_cards_apm video_cards_ark video_cards_ati video_cards_chips
video_cards_cirrus video_cards_cyrix video_cards_dummy video_cards_fbdev
video_cards_glint video_cards_i128 video_cards_i810 video_cards_mga
video_cards_neomagic video_cards_nv video_cards_rendition video_cards_s3
video_cards_s3virge video_cards_savage video_cards_siliconmotion
video_cards_sis video_cards_sisusb video_cards_tdfx video_cards_tga
video_cards_trident video_cards_tseng video_cards_v4l video_cards_vesa
video_cards_vga video_cards_via video_cards_vmware video_cards_voodoo xfs
xmlrpc xsl xtended zip zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS,
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 110556 ***