[peruser] strange http crash

[Janno Sannik]

Lazy wrote:
> 2008/9/3 Bipin Gautam <bipin.gautam at gmail.com>:
>   
>> Hi,
>> I am using peruser module in Gentoo in one of my server. The server is
>> serving few high traffic website with bandwith hit upto ~100Gega Bytes
>> data transfer per day and seldome exceeding 4.5 millon http request
>> per day.
>>
>> During high http load... in quiet a few occasions...... the apache
>> process crashes to idle! if you do ps -aux you see httpd processes but
>> the server isnt serving any data even though its listening in 80 and
>> able to initiate http /200 response successfully.
>>
>> after that the server is just idle. Even During such problem Nagois
>> http alert module shows the server's http is ok.
>>
>> has anyone have observed similar? known bug?
>>     
>
> try recompiling apache with more file descriptors by setting FD_SETSIZE of 4096
>
>   
How should this *excactly* be done  on a centos4 system?