Need to restart Apache once per day

[lappy512]

I have an apache2 server that has a configuration of maxclients of 150, but every day or so it crashes because a slot begins to crash and then never become available again, and then all the server processes begin to clog up, and then I need to restart Apache once in a while. Does anyone know how to stop this from happening?

[Dekker]

What kind of server are you running on?

[exam]

If you are running Apache2 on Windows, Apache states that it's not production ready. You'd probably be better off running 1.3, whatever your OS. If you still want to just restart Apache, schedule it with cron or at (Windows)

[lappy512]

Apache2 on Linux with PHP4.3.11.

Apache 2 should be fairly stable, and the main reason I used Apache2 was because I heard it was threaded, so worked better with the processor I was using (P4 HT)

[theblight]

Check your web applications and look closely on to the codes. May be some are loosely coded.

[lappy512]

Yeah, PHProxy is probably loosely coded. Oh well, I setup a cron job to restart apache hourly. Works well, even though it is kinda crude.

[theblight]

hope that there are no site visitor that would be affected by the restart...;) ..anyway good luck!

[concord]

typically, it should not be happening. you may want to make sure your apache was compiled correctly or your configuration set up.

[lappy512]

It's PHProxy, I guess, since I saw a Proxy site sale saying the owner modified it so it doesn't do that.