Re: Apache buffering error log warnings

SuperPoofie wrote:
> Hello,
> I have found ran into a problem for which I am now guessing the
> cause... but I need some help.
>
> I have two Apache Servers running with pretty similar conf (modperl
> scripts). They both output a large HTML file.
> Server #1 run and outputs the data fine but produces many warning on
> the error log.
> Server #2 freezes somewhere on the way. Since output warnings to the
> error log are buffered (I know this from just watching the error log
> with tail). I guess that the whole scripts freezes because the buffer
> gets full, right?
> So, first of all, can someone confirm this?
> Second, do I have any control over the size of the buffer? One server
> works, the other does not, so I guess the buffers are different size?
> Otherwise, can someone point out what other configuration variables
> could affect to identical scripts running in almost identical
> environments.

Indeed, earlier versions of apache 2 have a problem where cgi script
will fall over if they write too much to stderr. Upgrade to 2.0.50
where it should be fixed.

Joshua.