Bug#280206: apache: Apache wont start, FD_SETSIZE set too low in 1.3.31-7?

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto <fabbione@fabbione.net>]

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Peter Bredlöv wrote:
| No, the kernel is the same as before the upgrade.
|
| I guess I could have just hit the roof of some other limit, I do add vhosts every day. It just
seemed unlikely to me that it stopped working just then.
|
| I don't really care if this bug(?) was there before or not though. Is there anything we can
increase without messing up something else that can fix this? I have this in my /etc/init.d/apache:
|
| [snip]
| case "$1" in
|   start)
|     should_start
|     test_config
|     echo -n "Starting web server: $NAME"
|         ulimit -n 1000000
|     $ENV start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON > /dev/null
|     ;;
| [snip]
|
| Notice the ulimit -n command. But this doesn't help (I think it did before though, but im not sure).
|
| I havent tried building the source package myself, mostly because i dont know how to do that ;)

Can you try the packages i built for you here?

http://people.debian.org/~fabbione/apache/

They increase the FDSIZE up to 4096. If they work i will include the changes in the next upload.

Thanks
Fabio

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