Mailing List Archive: Re: SLOOOOOOW CGI includes in Apache?

Re: SLOOOOOOW CGI includes in Apache?

Aug 21, 1995, 9:16 AM

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I think I've seen this, but it didn't register at the time...

dave@west.net (Dave) in comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix wrote:

>I'm now running Apache 0.8.10 under Solaris on a Sparc20, and I'm
>seeing that CGI's and shell commands executed from a parsed HTML file take
>about a full second to finish their output, while if they are called in the
>URL directly they are essentially instantaneous.
>
>Is there a problem with IncludeExec output not getting flushed until the
>CGI times out? Rather extreme if you have several includes in the same
>page. The following takes about eight seconds:
>
><HR>
>
><HR>
>
><HR>
>
><HR>
>
>
>Ouch! My users are starting to complain.
>
>Help?
>
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Re: SLOOOOOOW CGI includes in Apache? [ In reply to ]

hagberg at mail

Aug 21, 1995, 9:01 AM

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At 11:42 AM 8/21/95, Robert S. Thau sez:

> I haven't seen this with the scripts in my includes test page, but I
> tried the code the guy sent, and sure 'nuff, I *do* see it with /cgi-bin/date.
> There's something fishy going on here...

Fishy? It works fine under A/UX... (no delays) hey, at least something
works better here...

-ech

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Re: SLOOOOOOW CGI includes in Apache? [ In reply to ]

hartill at ooo

Aug 21, 1995, 10:19 AM

Post #3 of 4 (617 views)

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> I haven't seen this with the scripts in my includes test page, but I
> tried the code the guy sent, and sure 'nuff, I *do* see it with /cgi-bin/date.
> There's something fishy going on here...

I think I've seen someone report a similar problem with 0.6.x

It could be that the Apache is to quick :-) it's sending a SIGTERM
to the process before it has had a chance to shutdown on its own,
so

/* Subprocess may be dead already. Only need the timeout if not. */
if (kill (p->pid, SIGTERM) != -1)
need_timeout = 1;

will always have kill return 0 (if Apache is too quick), and we
then need a sleep.

When I commented out the sleep(3), my CGI include worked promptly. With
the sleep(3) I see the same delay.

rob

Re: SLOOOOOOW CGI includes in Apache? [ In reply to ]

rst at ai

Aug 21, 1995, 11:42 AM

Post #4 of 4 (614 views)

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I haven't seen this with the scripts in my includes test page, but I
tried the code the guy sent, and sure 'nuff, I *do* see it with /cgi-bin/date.
There's something fishy going on here...

rst