Apache under Cygwin

[Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria at Salira dot com>]

This may or may not be off topic.

Recently I switched from using Apache for Windows to using Apache for 
Cygwin. Things work fine except that the stability of Apache under 
Cygwin is flakey. What often appears to happen is that the web server is 
running along just fine and you can see a main httpd process running and 
a number of child processes under it. Then things get stuck and the 
server no longer responds. This is evident when you attempt to connect 
to the server and it just hangs. Other times it pops up with a server 
refused connection.

Using telnet <server> 80 will exhibit similar behavior in that sometimes 
it just connect and hangs and other times it quickly gives a connection 
refused message.

In playing with this I jump on the server and start killing the children 
and reattempting either a web page connect or a telnet connection. 
Usually before I kill all of the children the web server responds and 
all is fine. However, needless to say, this is not how I want my web 
server to be behaving.

So, anybody out there using Apache for Cygwin experiencing similar 
problems? Any ideas or solutions or debugging strategies?

(Also seem to see what Randall had mentioned about it sometimes taking a 
few seconds to start up a Perl script CGI page...).

Hmmm... Seems that this may have been touched on before at 
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-11/msg00005.html but nobody has 
ever answered
Stipe's query. Another person also experienced similar problems and 
didn't get an answer either at 
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg00841.html

My particulars: Windows XP SP, Cygwin 1.3.21-1, Apache 1.3.24.-5.



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