Bug#902493: apache2-bin: Event MPM listener thread may get blocked by SSL shutdowns
On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 14:28:00 +0100 Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> wrote:
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> Language of course needs a bit of refining from my German-English.
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Nothing atrocious, really, but I was able to come up with something a bit more concise.
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By default, Apache 2.4 as provided by Debian uses mpm_event to process requests.
When used with TLS and under very specific circumstances, Apache will stop accepting new connections for a certain period of time.
To work around this issue, you may switch to mpm_worker or mpm_prefork.
For further discussion, see https://bugs.debian.org/902493 and https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60956
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