Websites would stop responding, but SSH still on

Hi,

I have been experiencing websites not responding for some reason. And they would start working after I restart apache2 from SSH. I also checked the memory, and find that most of the memory are available. I have found that this happens after around 1 day of restarting apache2.

I have changed a bit of php.ini to tune the performance, but I don't know what would've happened to cause my apache to hang like that.

Please help!

44 Replies

Do you know if apache (httpd) processes are still running ?

If so, how many ?

When my websites stop working, there are numerous apache processes running. I restarted my apache so I'm waiting for the hang to occur again. I will let you know when it hangs >_<…

Any chance you're being hit with slowloris? You can counteract that with CSF/LFD and an iptables module.

Run a netstat -nt and look for a whole lot of connections open to one IP address, that would be slowloris.

Edit: fixed spelling from nbtstat to netstat. Sorry!!

nbstat isn't working on my server.

Please see my screenshot for what is running:

http://www.swagly.com/screenshot.jpg

Any other way to see if slowloris on ubuntu?

Thanks so much!

nbstat is a typo it's supposed to be netstat -nt

You're not OOMing that's good, what is your MaxClients value in your apache configuration file?

What php software are you running?

@obs:

nbstat is a typo it's supposed to be netstat -nt

So sorry, I was typing fast and that one got away from me. I corrected my post and I apologize to OP for the mistake. Been doing some NetBios troubleshooting on a Windows LAN this week and the command is nbtstat there.

No problem guys. All great help.

I'm running mpmpreforkmodule, and MaxClients is 24.

#
# Based upon the NCSA server configuration files originally by Rob McCool.
#
# This is the main Apache server configuration file.  It contains the
# configuration directives that give the server its instructions.
# See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/ for detailed information about
# the directives.
#
# Do NOT simply read the instructions in here without understanding
# what they do.  They're here only as hints or reminders.  If you are unsure
# consult the online docs. You have been warned.  
#
# The configuration directives are grouped into three basic sections:
#  1\. Directives that control the operation of the Apache server process as a
#     whole (the 'global environment').
#  2\. Directives that define the parameters of the 'main' or 'default' server,
#     which responds to requests that aren't handled by a virtual host.
#     These directives also provide default values for the settings
#     of all virtual hosts.
#  3\. Settings for virtual hosts, which allow Web requests to be sent to
#     different IP addresses or hostnames and have them handled by the
#     same Apache server process.
#
# Configuration and logfile names: If the filenames you specify for many
# of the server's control files begin with "/" (or "drive:/" for Win32), the
# server will use that explicit path.  If the filenames do *not* begin
# with "/", the value of ServerRoot is prepended -- so "/var/log/apache2/foo.log"
# with ServerRoot set to "" will be interpreted by the
# server as "//var/log/apache2/foo.log".
#

### Section 1: Global Environment
#
# The directives in this section affect the overall operation of Apache,
# such as the number of concurrent requests it can handle or where it
# can find its configuration files.
#

#
# ServerRoot: The top of the directory tree under which the server's
# configuration, error, and log files are kept.
#
# NOTE!  If you intend to place this on an NFS (or otherwise network)
# mounted filesystem then please read the LockFile documentation (available
# at <url:http: httpd.apache.org="" docs-2.1="" mod="" mpm_common.html#lockfile="">);
# you will save yourself a lot of trouble.
#
# Do NOT add a slash at the end of the directory path.
#
ServerRoot "/etc/apache2"

#
# The accept serialization lock file MUST BE STORED ON A LOCAL DISK.
#
# <ifmodule !mpm_winnt.c=""># <ifmodule !mpm_netware.c="">LockFile /var/lock/apache2/accept.lock
#</ifmodule>
#</ifmodule>

#
# PidFile: The file in which the server should record its process
# identification number when it starts.
# This needs to be set in /etc/apache2/envvars
#
PidFile ${APACHE_PID_FILE}

#
# Timeout: The number of seconds before receives and sends time out.
#
Timeout 300

#
# KeepAlive: Whether or not to allow persistent connections (more than
# one request per connection). Set to "Off" to deactivate.
#
KeepAlive On

#
# MaxKeepAliveRequests: The maximum number of requests to allow
# during a persistent connection. Set to 0 to allow an unlimited amount.
# We recommend you leave this number high, for maximum performance.
#
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100

#
# KeepAliveTimeout: Number of seconds to wait for the next request from the
# same client on the same connection.
#
KeepAliveTimeout 15

##
## Server-Pool Size Regulation (MPM specific)
## 

# prefork MPM
# StartServers: number of server processes to start
# MinSpareServers: minimum number of server processes which are kept spare
# MaxSpareServers: maximum number of server processes which are kept spare
# MaxClients: maximum number of server processes allowed to start
# MaxRequestsPerChild: maximum number of requests a server process serves
 <ifmodule mpm_prefork_module="">#    StartServers          5
#    MinSpareServers       5
#    MaxSpareServers      10
#    MaxClients          150
#    MaxRequestsPerChild   0
StartServers 1
MinSpareServers 3
MaxSpareServers 6
ServerLimit 24
MaxClients 24
MaxRequestsPerChild 3000</ifmodule> 

# worker MPM
# StartServers: initial number of server processes to start
# MaxClients: maximum number of simultaneous client connections
# MinSpareThreads: minimum number of worker threads which are kept spare
# MaxSpareThreads: maximum number of worker threads which are kept spare
# ThreadsPerChild: constant number of worker threads in each server process
# MaxRequestsPerChild: maximum number of requests a server process serves
 <ifmodule mpm_worker_module="">StartServers          2
    MinSpareThreads      25
    MaxSpareThreads      75 
    ThreadLimit          64
    ThreadsPerChild      25
    MaxClients          150
    MaxRequestsPerChild   0</ifmodule> 

# event MPM
# StartServers: initial number of server processes to start
# MaxClients: maximum number of simultaneous client connections
# MinSpareThreads: minimum number of worker threads which are kept spare
# MaxSpareThreads: maximum number of worker threads which are kept spare
# ThreadsPerChild: constant number of worker threads in each server process
# MaxRequestsPerChild: maximum number of requests a server process serves
 <ifmodule mpm_event_module="">StartServers          2
    MaxClients          150
    MinSpareThreads      25
    MaxSpareThreads      75 
    ThreadLimit          64
    ThreadsPerChild      25
    MaxRequestsPerChild   0</ifmodule> 

# These need to be set in /etc/apache2/envvars
User ${APACHE_RUN_USER}
Group ${APACHE_RUN_GROUP}

#
# AccessFileName: The name of the file to look for in each directory
# for additional configuration directives.  See also the AllowOverride
# directive.
#

AccessFileName .htaccess

#
# The following lines prevent .htaccess and .htpasswd files from being 
# viewed by Web clients. 
#
 <files ~="" "^\.ht"="">Order allow,deny
    Deny from all</files> 

#
# DefaultType is the default MIME type the server will use for a document
# if it cannot otherwise determine one, such as from filename extensions.
# If your server contains mostly text or HTML documents, "text/plain" is
# a good value.  If most of your content is binary, such as applications
# or images, you may want to use "application/octet-stream" instead to
# keep browsers from trying to display binary files as though they are
# text.
#
DefaultType text/plain

#
# HostnameLookups: Log the names of clients or just their IP addresses
# e.g., www.apache.org (on) or 204.62.129.132 (off).
# The default is off because it'd be overall better for the net if people
# had to knowingly turn this feature on, since enabling it means that
# each client request will result in AT LEAST one lookup request to the
# nameserver.
#
HostnameLookups Off

# ErrorLog: The location of the error log file.
# If you do not specify an ErrorLog directive within a <virtualhost># container, error messages relating to that virtual host will be
# logged here.  If you *do* define an error logfile for a <virtualhost># container, that host's errors will be logged there and not here.
#
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log

#
# LogLevel: Control the number of messages logged to the error_log.
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
#
LogLevel warn

# Include module configuration:
Include /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/*.load
Include /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/*.conf

# Include all the user configurations:
Include /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

# Include ports listing
Include /etc/apache2/ports.conf

#
# The following directives define some format nicknames for use with
# a CustomLog directive (see below).
# If you are behind a reverse proxy, you might want to change %h into %{X-Forwarded-For}i
#
LogFormat "%v:%p %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %O \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" vhost_combined
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %O \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %O" common
LogFormat "%{Referer}i -> %U" referer
LogFormat "%{User-agent}i" agent

#
# Define an access log for VirtualHosts that don't define their own logfile
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/other_vhosts_access.log vhost_combined

# Include of directories ignores editors' and dpkg's backup files,
# see README.Debian for details.

# Include generic snippets of statements
Include /etc/apache2/conf.d/

# Include the virtual host configurations:
Include /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/</virtualhost></virtualhost></url:http:> 

php.ini file is here:

`apache[php]

;;;;;;;;;;;
; WARNING ;
;;;;;;;;;;;
; This is the default settings file for new PHP installations.
; By default, PHP installs itself with a configuration suitable for
; development purposes, and *NOT* for production purposes.
; For several security-oriented considerations that should be taken
; before going online with your site, please consult php.ini-recommended
; and http://php.net/manual/en/security.php.

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; About php.ini   ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; This file controls many aspects of PHP's behavior.  In order for PHP to
; read it, it must be named 'php.ini'.  PHP looks for it in the current
; working directory, in the path designated by the environment variable
; PHPRC, and in the path that was defined in compile time (in that order).
; Under Windows, the compile-time path is the Windows directory.  The
; path in which the php.ini file is looked for can be overridden using
; the -c argument in command line mode.
;
; The syntax of the file is extremely simple.  Whitespace and Lines
; beginning with a semicolon are silently ignored (as you probably guessed).
; Section headers (e.g. [Foo]) are also silently ignored, even though
; they might mean something in the future.
;
; Directives are specified using the following syntax:
; directive = value
; Directive names are *case sensitive* - foo=bar is different from FOO=bar.
;
; The value can be a string, a number, a PHP constant (e.g. E_ALL or M_PI), one
; of the INI constants (On, Off, True, False, Yes, No and None) or an expression
; (e.g. E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE), or a quoted string ("foo").
;
; Expressions in the INI file are limited to bitwise operators and parentheses:
; |        bitwise OR
; &        bitwise AND
; ~        bitwise NOT
; !        boolean NOT
;
; Boolean flags can be turned on using the values 1, On, True or Yes.
; They can be turned off using the values 0, Off, False or No.
;
; An empty string can be denoted by simply not writing anything after the equal
; sign, or by using the None keyword:
;
;  foo =         ; sets foo to an empty string
;  foo = none    ; sets foo to an empty string
;  foo = "none"  ; sets foo to the string 'none'
;
; If you use constants in your value, and these constants belong to a
; dynamically loaded extension (either a PHP extension or a Zend extension),
; you may only use these constants *after* the line that loads the extension.
;
;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; About this file ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; All the values in the php.ini-dist file correspond to the builtin
; defaults (that is, if no php.ini is used, or if you delete these lines,
; the builtin defaults will be identical).

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Language Options ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

; Enable the PHP scripting language engine under Apache.
engine = On

; Enable compatibility mode with Zend Engine 1 (PHP 4.x)
zend.ze1_compatibility_mode = Off

; Allow the  tags are recognized.
; NOTE: Using short tags should be avoided when developing applications or
; libraries that are meant for redistribution, or deployment on PHP
; servers which are not under your control, because short tags may not
; be supported on the target server. For portable, redistributable code,
; be sure not to use short tags.
short_open_tag = On

; Allow ASP-style <% %> tags.
asp_tags = Off

; The number of significant digits displayed in floating point numbers.
precision    =  12

; Enforce year 2000 compliance (will cause problems with non-compliant browsers)
y2k_compliance = On

; Output buffering allows you to send header lines (including cookies) even
; after you send body content, at the price of slowing PHP's output layer a
; bit.  You can enable output buffering during runtime by calling the output
; buffering functions.  You can also enable output buffering for all files by
; setting this directive to On.  If you wish to limit the size of the buffer
; to a certain size - you can use a maximum number of bytes instead of 'On', as
; a value for this directive (e.g., output_buffering=4096).
output_buffering = on

; You can redirect all of the output of your scripts to a function.  For
; example, if you set output_handler to "mb_output_handler", character
; encoding will be transparently converted to the specified encoding.
; Setting any output handler automatically turns on output buffering.
; Note: People who wrote portable scripts should not depend on this ini
;       directive. Instead, explicitly set the output handler using ob_start().
;       Using this ini directive may cause problems unless you know what script
;       is doing.
; Note: You cannot use both "mb_output_handler" with "ob_iconv_handler"
;       and you cannot use both "ob_gzhandler" and "zlib.output_compression".
; Note: output_handler must be empty if this is set 'On' !!!!
;       Instead you must use zlib.output_handler.
;output_handler =

; Transparent output compression using the zlib library
; Valid values for this option are 'off', 'on', or a specific buffer size
; to be used for compression (default is 4KB)
; Note: Resulting chunk size may vary due to nature of compression. PHP
;       outputs chunks that are few hundreds bytes each as a result of
;       compression. If you prefer a larger chunk size for better
;       performance, enable output_buffering in addition.
; Note: You need to use zlib.output_handler instead of the standard
;       output_handler, or otherwise the output will be corrupted.
zlib.output_compression = Off
;zlib.output_compression_level = -1

; You cannot specify additional output handlers if zlib.output_compression
; is activated here. This setting does the same as output_handler but in
; a different order.
;zlib.output_handler =

; Implicit flush tells PHP to tell the output layer to flush itself
; automatically after every output block.  This is equivalent to calling the
; PHP function flush() after each and every call to print() or echo() and each
; and every HTML block.  Turning this option on has serious performance
; implications and is generally recommended for debugging purposes only.
implicit_flush = Off

; The unserialize callback function will be called (with the undefined class'
; name as parameter), if the unserializer finds an undefined class
; which should be instantiated.
; A warning appears if the specified function is not defined, or if the
; function doesn't include/implement the missing class.
; So only set this entry, if you really want to implement such a
; callback-function.
unserialize_callback_func=

; When floats & doubles are serialized store serialize_precision significant
; digits after the floating point. The default value ensures that when floats
; are decoded with unserialize, the data will remain the same.
serialize_precision = 100

; Whether to enable the ability to force arguments to be passed by reference
; at function call time.  This method is deprecated and is likely to be
; unsupported in future versions of PHP/Zend.  The encouraged method of
; specifying which arguments should be passed by reference is in the function
; declaration.  You're encouraged to try and turn this option Off and make
; sure your scripts work properly with it in order to ensure they will work
; with future versions of the language (you will receive a warning each time
; you use this feature, and the argument will be passed by value instead of by
; reference).
allow_call_time_pass_reference = On

;
; Safe Mode
;
; NOTE: this is considered a "broken" security measure.
;       Applications relying on this feature will not recieve full
;       support by the security team.  For more information please
;       see /usr/share/doc/php5-common/README.Debian.security
;
safe_mode = Off

; By default, Safe Mode does a UID compare check when
; opening files. If you want to relax this to a GID compare,
; then turn on safe_mode_gid.
safe_mode_gid = Off

; When safe_mode is on, UID/GID checks are bypassed when
; including files from this directory and its subdirectories.
; (directory must also be in include_path or full path must
; be used when including)
safe_mode_include_dir =

; When safe_mode is on, only executables located in the safe_mode_exec_dir
; will be allowed to be executed via the exec family of functions.
safe_mode_exec_dir =

; Setting certain environment variables may be a potential security breach.
; This directive contains a comma-delimited list of prefixes.  In Safe Mode,
; the user may only alter environment variables whose names begin with the
; prefixes supplied here.  By default, users will only be able to set
; environment variables that begin with PHP_ (e.g. PHP_FOO=BAR).
;
; Note:  If this directive is empty, PHP will let the user modify ANY
; environment variable!
safe_mode_allowed_env_vars = PHP_

; This directive contains a comma-delimited list of environment variables that
; the end user won't be able to change using putenv().  These variables will be
; protected even if safe_mode_allowed_env_vars is set to allow to change them.
safe_mode_protected_env_vars = LD_LIBRARY_PATH

; open_basedir, if set, limits all file operations to the defined directory
; and below.  This directive makes most sense if used in a per-directory
; or per-virtualhost web server configuration file. This directive is
; *NOT* affected by whether Safe Mode is turned On or Off.

; NOTE: this is considered a "broken" security measure.
;       Applications relying on this feature will not recieve full
;       support by the security team.  For more information please
;       see /usr/share/doc/php5-common/README.Debian.security
;

open_basedir = off

; This directive allows you to disable certain functions for security reasons.
; It receives a comma-delimited list of function names. This directive is
; *NOT* affected by whether Safe Mode is turned On or Off.
disable_functions =

; This directive allows you to disable certain classes for security reasons.
; It receives a comma-delimited list of class names. This directive is
; *NOT* affected by whether Safe Mode is turned On or Off.
disable_classes =

; Colors for Syntax Highlighting mode.  Anything that's acceptable in
; would work.
;highlight.string  = #DD0000
;highlight.comment = #FF9900
;highlight.keyword = #007700
;highlight.bg      = #FFFFFF
;highlight.default = #0000BB
;highlight.html    = #000000

; If enabled, the request will be allowed to complete even if the user aborts
; the request. Consider enabling it if executing long request, which may end up
; being interrupted by the user or a browser timing out.
; ignore_user_abort = On

; Determines the size of the realpath cache to be used by PHP. This value should
; be increased on systems where PHP opens many files to reflect the quantity of
; the file operations performed.
realpath_cache_size=16k

; Duration of time, in seconds for which to cache realpath information for a given
; file or directory. For systems with rarely changing files, consider increasing this
; value.
realpath_cache_ttl=120

;
; Misc
;
; Decides whether PHP may expose the fact that it is installed on the server
; (e.g. by adding its signature to the Web server header).  It is no security
; threat in any way, but it makes it possible to determine whether you use PHP
; on your server or not.
expose_php = On

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Resource Limits ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

max_execution_time = 30000     ; Maximum execution time of each script, in seconds
max_input_time = 60000 ; Maximum amount of time each script may spend parsing request data
;max_input_nesting_level = 64 ; Maximum input variable nesting level
memory_limit = 256M      ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (16MB)
php_value memory_limit = 256M;

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Error handling and logging ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

; error_reporting is a bit-field.  Or each number up to get desired error
; reporting level
; E_ALL             - All errors and warnings (doesn't include E_STRICT)
; E_ERROR           - fatal run-time errors
; E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR  - almost fatal run-time errors
; E_WARNING         - run-time warnings (non-fatal errors)
; E_PARSE           - compile-time parse errors
; E_NOTICE          - run-time notices (these are warnings which often result
;                     from a bug in your code, but it's possible that it was
;                     intentional (e.g., using an uninitialized variable and
;                     relying on the fact it's automatically initialized to an
;                     empty string)
; E_STRICT          - run-time notices, enable to have PHP suggest changes
;                     to your code which will ensure the best interoperability
;                     and forward compatibility of your code
; E_CORE_ERROR      - fatal errors that occur during PHP's initial startup
; E_CORE_WARNING    - warnings (non-fatal errors) that occur during PHP's
;                     initial startup
; E_COMPILE_ERROR   - fatal compile-time errors
; E_COMPILE_WARNING - compile-time warnings (non-fatal errors)
; E_USER_ERROR      - user-generated error message
; E_USER_WARNING    - user-generated warning message
; E_USER_NOTICE     - user-generated notice message
;
; Examples:
;
;   - Show all errors, except for notices and coding standards warnings
;
;error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE
;
;   - Show all errors, except for notices
;
;error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE | E_STRICT
;
;   - Show only errors
;
;error_reporting = E_COMPILE_ERROR|E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR|E_ERROR|E_CORE_ERROR
;
;   - Show all errors except for notices and coding standards warnings
;
error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE

; Print out errors (as a part of the output).  For production web sites,
; you're strongly encouraged to turn this feature off, and use error logging
; instead (see below).  Keeping display_errors enabled on a production web site
; may reveal security information to end users, such as file paths on your Web
; server, your database schema or other information.
;
; possible values for display_errors:
;
; Off        - Do not display any errors
; stderr     - Display errors to STDERR (affects only CGI/CLI binaries!)
;
;display_errors = "stderr"
;
; stdout (On) - Display errors to STDOUT
;
display_errors = On

; Even when display_errors is on, errors that occur during PHP's startup
; sequence are not displayed.  It's strongly recommended to keep
; display_startup_errors off, except for when debugging.
display_startup_errors = Off

; Log errors into a log file (server-specific log, stderr, or error_log (below))
; As stated above, you're strongly advised to use error logging in place of
; error displaying on production web sites.
log_errors = Off

; Set maximum length of log_errors. In error_log information about the source is
; added. The default is 1024 and 0 allows to not apply any maximum length at all.
log_errors_max_len = 1024

; Do not log repeated messages. Repeated errors must occur in same file on same
; line unless ignore_repeated_source is set true.
ignore_repeated_errors = Off

; Ignore source of message when ignoring repeated messages. When this setting
; is On you will not log errors with repeated messages from different files or
; source lines.
ignore_repeated_source = Off

; If this parameter is set to Off, then memory leaks will not be shown (on
; stdout or in the log). This has only effect in a debug compile, and if
; error reporting includes E_WARNING in the allowed list
report_memleaks = On

;report_zend_debug = 0

; Store the last error/warning message in $php_errormsg (boolean).
track_errors = Off

; Turn off normal error reporting and emit XML-RPC error XML
;xmlrpc_errors = 0
; An XML-RPC faultCode
;xmlrpc_error_number = 0

; Disable the inclusion of HTML tags in error messages.
; Note: Never use this feature for production boxes.
;html_errors = Off

; If html_errors is set On PHP produces clickable error messages that direct
; to a page describing the error or function causing the error in detail.
; You can download a copy of the PHP manual from http://www.php.net/docs.php
; and change docref_root to the base URL of your local copy including the
; leading '/'. You must also specify the file extension being used including
; the dot.
; Note: Never use this feature for production boxes.
;docref_root = "/phpmanual/"
;docref_ext = .html

; String to output before an error message.
;error_prepend_string = ""

; String to output after an error message.
;error_append_string = ""

; Log errors to specified file.
;error_log = filename

; Log errors to syslog (Event Log on NT, not valid in Windows 95).
;error_log = syslog

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Data Handling ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;
; Note - track_vars is ALWAYS enabled as of PHP 4.0.3

; The separator used in PHP generated URLs to separate arguments.
; Default is "&".
;arg_separator.output = "&"

; List of separator(s) used by PHP to parse input URLs into variables.
; Default is "&".
; NOTE: Every character in this directive is considered as separator!
;arg_separator.input = ";&"

; This directive describes the order in which PHP registers GET, POST, Cookie,
; Environment and Built-in variables (G, P, C, E & S respectively, often
; referred to as EGPCS or GPC).  Registration is done from left to right, newer
; values override older values.
variables_order = "EGPCS"

; Whether or not to register the EGPCS variables as global variables.  You may
; want to turn this off if you don't want to clutter your scripts' global scope
; with user data.  This makes most sense when coupled with track_vars - in which
; case you can access all of the GPC variables through the $HTTP_*_VARS[],
; variables.
;
; You should do your best to write your scripts so that they do not require
; register_globals to be on;  Using form variables as globals can easily lead
; to possible security problems, if the code is not very well thought of.

; NOTE: applications relying on this feature will not recieve full
;       support by the security team.  For more information please
;       see /usr/share/doc/php5-common/README.Debian.security
;
register_globals = Off

; Whether or not to register the old-style input arrays, HTTP_GET_VARS
; and friends.  If you're not using them, it's recommended to turn them off,
; for performance reasons.
register_long_arrays = On

; This directive tells PHP whether to declare the argv&argc variables (that
; would contain the GET information).  If you don't use these variables, you
; should turn it off for increased performance.
register_argc_argv = On

; When enabled, the SERVER and ENV variables are created when they're first
; used (Just In Time) instead of when the script starts. If these variables
; are not used within a script, having this directive on will result in a
; performance gain. The PHP directives register_globals, register_long_arrays,
; and register_argc_argv must be disabled for this directive to have any affect.
auto_globals_jit = On

; Maximum size of POST data that PHP will accept.
post_max_size = 256M

; Magic quotes
;

; Magic quotes for incoming GET/POST/Cookie data.
magic_quotes_gpc = On

; Magic quotes for runtime-generated data, e.g. data from SQL, from exec(), etc.
magic_quotes_runtime = Off

; Use Sybase-style magic quotes (escape ' with '' instead of \').
magic_quotes_sybase = Off

; Automatically add files before or after any PHP document.
auto_prepend_file =
auto_append_file =

; As of 4.0b4, PHP always outputs a character encoding by default in
; the Content-type: header.  To disable sending of the charset, simply
; set it to be empty.
;
; PHP's built-in default is text/html
default_mimetype = "text/html"
;default_charset = "iso-8859-1"

; Always populate the $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA variable.
;always_populate_raw_post_data = On

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Paths and Directories ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

; UNIX: "/path1:/path2"
;include_path = ".:/usr/share/php"
include_path = ".:/opt/ZendFramework/current/library:/usr/share/php5:/usr/share/pear"

;
; Windows: "\path1;\path2"
;include_path = ".;c:\php\includes"

; The root of the PHP pages, used only if nonempty.
; if PHP was not compiled with FORCE_REDIRECT, you SHOULD set doc_root
; if you are running php as a CGI under any web server (other than IIS)
; see documentation for security issues.  The alternate is to use the
; cgi.force_redirect configuration below
doc_root =

; The directory under which PHP opens the script using /~username used only
; if nonempty.
user_dir =

; Directory in which the loadable extensions (modules) reside.
; extension_dir = "./"

; Whether or not to enable the dl() function.  The dl() function does NOT work
; properly in multithreaded servers, such as IIS or Zeus, and is automatically
; disabled on them.
; NOTE: this is a potential security hole and is disabled by default in debian
enable_dl = Off

; cgi.force_redirect is necessary to provide security running PHP as a CGI under
; most web servers.  Left undefined, PHP turns this on by default.  You can
; turn it off here AT YOUR OWN RISK
; **You CAN safely turn this off for IIS, in fact, you MUST.**
; cgi.force_redirect = 1

; if cgi.nph is enabled it will force cgi to always sent Status: 200 with
; every request.
; cgi.nph = 1

; if cgi.force_redirect is turned on, and you are not running under Apache or Netscape
; (iPlanet) web servers, you MAY need to set an environment variable name that PHP
; will look for to know it is OK to continue execution.  Setting this variable MAY
; cause security issues, KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING FIRST.
; cgi.redirect_status_env = ;

; cgi.fix_pathinfo provides *real* PATH_INFO/PATH_TRANSLATED support for CGI.  PHP's
; previous behaviour was to set PATH_TRANSLATED to SCRIPT_FILENAME, and to not grok
; what PATH_INFO is.  For more information on PATH_INFO, see the cgi specs.  Setting
; this to 1 will cause PHP CGI to fix it's paths to conform to the spec.  A setting
; of zero causes PHP to behave as before.  Default is 1\.  You should fix your scripts
; to use SCRIPT_FILENAME rather than PATH_TRANSLATED.
; cgi.fix_pathinfo=0

; FastCGI under IIS (on WINNT based OS) supports the ability to impersonate
; security tokens of the calling client.  This allows IIS to define the
; security context that the request runs under.  mod_fastcgi under Apache
; does not currently support this feature (03/17/2002)
; Set to 1 if running under IIS.  Default is zero.
; fastcgi.impersonate = 1;

; Disable logging through FastCGI connection
; fastcgi.logging = 0

; cgi.rfc2616_headers configuration option tells PHP what type of headers to
; use when sending HTTP response code. If it's set 0 PHP sends Status: header that
; is supported by Apache. When this option is set to 1 PHP will send
; RFC2616 compliant header.
; Default is zero.
;cgi.rfc2616_headers = 0

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; File Uploads ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

; Whether to allow HTTP file uploads.
file_uploads = On

; Temporary directory for HTTP uploaded files (will use system default if not
; specified).
;upload_tmp_dir =

; Maximum allowed size for uploaded files.
upload_max_filesize = 100M

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Fopen wrappers ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

; Whether to allow the treatment of URLs (like http:// or ftp://) as files.
allow_url_fopen = On

; Whether to allow include/require to open URLs (like http:// or ftp://) as files.
allow_url_include = Off

; Define the anonymous ftp password (your email address)
;from="john@doe.com"

; Define the User-Agent string
; user_agent="PHP"

; Default timeout for socket based streams (seconds)
default_socket_timeout = 60

; If your scripts have to deal with files from Macintosh systems,
; or you are running on a Mac and need to deal with files from
; unix or win32 systems, setting this flag will cause PHP to
; automatically detect the EOL character in those files so that
; fgets() and file() will work regardless of the source of the file.
; auto_detect_line_endings = Off

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Dynamic Extensions ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;
; If you wish to have an extension loaded automatically, use the following
; syntax:
;
;   extension=modulename.extension
;
; For example, on Windows:
;
;   extension=msql.dll
;
; ... or under UNIX:
;
;   extension=msql.so
;
; Note that it should be the name of the module only; no directory information
; needs to go here.  Specify the location of the extension with the
; extension_dir directive above.

extension=apc.so
apc.shm_size=256
apc.rfc1867 = 1
apc.user_ttl=7200
apc.ttl=7200
apc.rfc1867_ttl=7200
apc.shm_segments=1 
apc.num_files_hint=1024
apc.mmap_file_mask=/tmp/apc.XXXXXX  
apc.enable_cli=1                  
apc.stat=1

extension=/usr/local/ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_5.2.so

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Module Settings ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

[Date]
; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions
;date.timezone =

;date.default_latitude = 31.7667
;date.default_longitude = 35.2333

;date.sunrise_zenith = 90.583333
;date.sunset_zenith = 90.583333

[filter]
;filter.default = unsafe_raw
;filter.default_flags =

[iconv]
;iconv.input_encoding = ISO-8859-1
;iconv.internal_encoding = ISO-8859-1
;iconv.output_encoding = ISO-8859-1

[sqlite]
;sqlite.assoc_case = 0

[Pcre]
;PCRE library backtracking limit.
;pcre.backtrack_limit=100000

;PCRE library recursion limit. 
;Please note that if you set this value to a high number you may consume all 
;the available process stack and eventually crash PHP (due to reaching the 
;stack size limit imposed by the Operating System).
;pcre.recursion_limit=100000

[Syslog]
; Whether or not to define the various syslog variables (e.g. $LOG_PID,
; $LOG_CRON, etc.).  Turning it off is a good idea performance-wise.  In
; runtime, you can define these variables by calling define_syslog_variables().
define_syslog_variables  = Off

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = localhost
smtp_port = 25

; For Win32 only.
;sendmail_from = me@example.com

; For Unix only.  You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
;sendmail_path =

; Force the addition of the specified parameters to be passed as extra parameters
; to the sendmail binary. These parameters will always replace the value of
; the 5th parameter to mail(), even in safe mode.
;mail.force_extra_parameters =

[SQL]
sql.safe_mode = Off

[ODBC]
;odbc.default_db    =  Not yet implemented
;odbc.default_user  =  Not yet implemented
;odbc.default_pw    =  Not yet implemented

; Allow or prevent persistent links.
odbc.allow_persistent = On

; Check that a connection is still valid before reuse.
odbc.check_persistent = On

; Maximum number of persistent links.  -1 means no limit.
odbc.max_persistent = -1

; Maximum number of links (persistent + non-persistent).  -1 means no limit.
odbc.max_links = -1

; Handling of LONG fields.  Returns number of bytes to variables.  0 means
; passthru.
odbc.defaultlrl = 4096

; Handling of binary data.  0 means passthru, 1 return as is, 2 convert to char.
; See the documentation on odbc_binmode and odbc_longreadlen for an explanation
; of uodbc.defaultlrl and uodbc.defaultbinmode
odbc.defaultbinmode = 1

[MySQL]
; Allow or prevent persistent links.
mysql.allow_persistent = On

; Maximum number of persistent links.  -1 means no limit.
mysql.max_persistent = -1

; Maximum number of links (persistent + non-persistent).  -1 means no limit.
mysql.max_links = -1

; Default port number for mysql_connect().  If unset, mysql_connect() will use
; the $MYSQL_TCP_PORT or the mysql-tcp entry in /etc/services or the
; compile-time value defined MYSQL_PORT (in that order).  Win32 will only look
; at MYSQL_PORT.
mysql.default_port =

; Default socket name for local MySQL connects.  If empty, uses the built-in
; MySQL defaults.
mysql.default_socket =

; Default host for mysql_connect() (doesn't apply in safe mode).
mysql.default_host =

; Default user for mysql_connect() (doesn't apply in safe mode).
mysql.default_user =

; Default password for mysql_connect() (doesn't apply in safe mode).
; Note that this is generally a *bad* idea to store passwords in this file.
; *Any* user with PHP access can run 'echo get_cfg_var("mysql.default_password")
; and reveal this password!  And of course, any users with read access to this
; file will be able to reveal the password as well.
mysql.default_password =

; Maximum time (in seconds) for connect timeout. -1 means no limit
mysql.connect_timeout = 60

; Trace mode. When trace_mode is active (=On), warnings for table/index scans and
; SQL-Errors will be displayed.
mysql.trace_mode = Off

[MySQLi]

; Maximum number of links.  -1 means no limit.
mysqli.max_links = -1

; Default port number for mysqli_connect().  If unset, mysqli_connect() will use
; the $MYSQL_TCP_PORT or the mysql-tcp entry in /etc/services or the
; compile-time value defined MYSQL_PORT (in that order).  Win32 will only look
; at MYSQL_PORT.
mysqli.default_port = 3306

; Default socket name for local MySQL connects.  If empty, uses the built-in
; MySQL defaults.
mysqli.default_socket =

; Default host for mysql_connect() (doesn't apply in safe mode).
mysqli.default_host =

; Default user for mysql_connect() (doesn't apply in safe mode).
mysqli.default_user =

; Default password for mysqli_connect() (doesn't apply in safe mode).
; Note that this is generally a *bad* idea to store passwords in this file.
; *Any* user with PHP access can run 'echo get_cfg_var("mysqli.default_pw")
; and reveal this password!  And of course, any users with read access to this
; file will be able to reveal the password as well.
mysqli.default_pw =

; Allow or prevent reconnect
mysqli.reconnect = Off

[mSQL]
; Allow or prevent persistent links.
msql.allow_persistent = On

; Maximum number of persistent links.  -1 means no limit.
msql.max_persistent = -1

; Maximum number of links (persistent+non persistent).  -1 means no limit.
msql.max_links = -1

[OCI8]
; enables privileged connections using external credentials (OCI_SYSOPER, OCI_SYSDBA)
;oci8.privileged_connect = Off

; Connection: The maximum number of persistent OCI8 connections per
; process. Using -1 means no limit.
;oci8.max_persistent = -1

; Connection: The maximum number of seconds a process is allowed to
; maintain an idle persistent connection. Using -1 means idle
; persistent connections will be maintained forever.
;oci8.persistent_timeout = -1

; Connection: The number of seconds that must pass before issuing a
; ping during oci_pconnect() to check the connection validity. When
; set to 0, each oci_pconnect() will cause a ping. Using -1 disables
; pings completely.
;oci8.ping_interval = 60

; Tuning: This option enables statement caching, and specifies how
; many statements to cache. Using 0 disables statement caching.
;oci8.statement_cache_size = 20

; Tuning: Enables statement prefetching and sets the default number of
; rows that will be fetched automatically after statement execution.
;oci8.default_prefetch = 10

; Compatibility. Using On means oci_close() will not close
; oci_connect() and oci_new_connect() connections.
;oci8.old_oci_close_semantics = Off

[PostgresSQL]
; Allow or prevent persistent links.
pgsql.allow_persistent = On

; Detect broken persistent links always with pg_pconnect().
; Auto reset feature requires a little overheads.
pgsql.auto_reset_persistent = Off

; Maximum number of persistent links.  -1 means no limit.
pgsql.max_persistent = -1

; Maximum number of links (persistent+non persistent).  -1 means no limit.
pgsql.max_links = -1

; Ignore PostgreSQL backends Notice message or not.
; Notice message logging require a little overheads.
pgsql.ignore_notice = 0

; Log PostgreSQL backends Notice message or not.
; Unless pgsql.ignore_notice=0, module cannot log notice message.
pgsql.log_notice = 0

[Sybase]
; Allow or prevent persistent links.
sybase.allow_persistent = On

; Maximum number of persistent links.  -1 means no limit.
sybase.max_persistent = -1

; Maximum number of links (persistent + non-persistent).  -1 means no limit.
sybase.max_links = -1

;sybase.interface_file = "/usr/sybase/interfaces"

; Minimum error severity to display.
sybase.min_error_severity = 10

; Minimum message severity to display.
sybase.min_message_severity = 10

; Compatibility mode with old versions of PHP 3.0.
; If on, this will cause PHP to automatically assign types to results according
; to their Sybase type, instead of treating them all as strings.  This
; compatibility mode will probably not stay around forever, so try applying
; whatever necessary changes to your code, and turn it off.
sybase.compatability_mode = Off

[Sybase-CT]
; Allow or prevent persistent links.
sybct.allow_persistent = On

; Maximum number of persistent links.  -1 means no limit.
sybct.max_persistent = -1

; Maximum number of links (persistent + non-persistent).  -1 means no limit.
sybct.max_links = -1

; Minimum server message severity to display.
sybct.min_server_severity = 10

; Minimum client message severity to display.
sybct.min_client_severity = 10

[bcmath]
; Number of decimal digits for all bcmath functions.
bcmath.scale = 0

[browscap]
;browscap = extra/browscap.ini

[Informix]
; Default host for ifx_connect() (doesn't apply in safe mode).
ifx.default_host =

; Default user for ifx_connect() (doesn't apply in safe mode).
ifx.default_user =

; Default password for ifx_connect() (doesn't apply in safe mode).
ifx.default_password =

; Allow or prevent persistent links.
ifx.allow_persistent = On

; Maximum number of persistent links.  -1 means no limit.
ifx.max_persistent = -1

; Maximum number of links (persistent + non-persistent).  -1 means no limit.
ifx.max_links = -1

; If on, select statements return the contents of a text blob instead of its id.
ifx.textasvarchar = 0

; If on, select statements return the contents of a byte blob instead of its id.
ifx.byteasvarchar = 0

; Trailing blanks are stripped from fixed-length char columns.  May help the
; life of Informix SE users.
ifx.charasvarchar = 0

; If on, the contents of text and byte blobs are dumped to a file instead of
; keeping them in memory.
ifx.blobinfile = 0

; NULL's are returned as empty strings, unless this is set to 1\.  In that case,
; NULL's are returned as string 'NULL'.
ifx.nullformat = 0

[Session]
; Handler used to store/retrieve data.
session.save_handler = files

; Argument passed to save_handler.  In the case of files, this is the path
; where data files are stored. Note: Windows users have to change this
; variable in order to use PHP's session functions.
;
; As of PHP 4.0.1, you can define the path as:
;
;     session.save_path = "N;/path"
;
; where N is an integer.  Instead of storing all the session files in
; /path, what this will do is use subdirectories N-levels deep, and
; store the session data in those directories.  This is useful if you
; or your OS have problems with lots of files in one directory, and is
; a more efficient layout for servers that handle lots of sessions.
;
; NOTE 1: PHP will not create this directory structure automatically.
;         You can use the script in the ext/session dir for that purpose.
; NOTE 2: See the section on garbage collection below if you choose to
;         use subdirectories for session storage
;
; The file storage module creates files using mode 600 by default.
; You can change that by using
;
;     session.save_path = "N;MODE;/path"
;
; where MODE is the octal representation of the mode. Note that this
; does not overwrite the process's umask.
;session.save_path = /var/lib/php5

; Whether to use cookies.
session.use_cookies = 1

;session.cookie_secure = 

; This option enables administrators to make their users invulnerable to
; attacks which involve passing session ids in URLs; defaults to 0.
; session.use_only_cookies = 1

; Name of the session (used as cookie name).
session.name = PHPSESSID

; Initialize session on request startup.
session.auto_start = 0

; Lifetime in seconds of cookie or, if 0, until browser is restarted.
session.cookie_lifetime = 0

; The path for which the cookie is valid.
session.cookie_path = /

; The domain for which the cookie is valid.
session.cookie_domain =

; Whether or not to add the httpOnly flag to the cookie, which makes it inaccessible to browser scripting languages such as JavaScript.
session.cookie_httponly = 

; Handler used to serialize data.  php is the standard serializer of PHP.
session.serialize_handler = php

; Define the probability that the 'garbage collection' process is started
; on every session initialization.
; The probability is calculated by using gc_probability/gc_divisor,
; e.g. 1/100 means there is a 1% chance that the GC process starts
; on each request.

; This is disabled in the Debian packages, due to the strict permissions
; on /var/lib/php5\.  Instead of setting this here, see the cronjob at
; /etc/cron.d/php5, which uses the session.gc_maxlifetime setting below.
; php scripts using their own session.save_path should make sure garbage
; collection is enabled by setting session.gc_probability
;session.gc_probability = 0
session.gc_divisor     = 100

; After this number of seconds, stored data will be seen as 'garbage' and
; cleaned up by the garbage collection process.
session.gc_maxlifetime = 15000

; NOTE: If you are using the subdirectory option for storing session files
;       (see session.save_path above), then garbage collection does *not*
;       happen automatically.  You will need to do your own garbage
;       collection through a shell script, cron entry, or some other method.
;       For example, the following script would is the equivalent of
;       setting session.gc_maxlifetime to 1440 (1440 seconds = 24 minutes):
;          cd /path/to/sessions; find -cmin +24 | xargs rm

; PHP 4.2 and less have an undocumented feature/bug that allows you to
; to initialize a session variable in the global scope, albeit register_globals
; is disabled.  PHP 4.3 and later will warn you, if this feature is used.
; You can disable the feature and the warning separately. At this time,
; the warning is only displayed, if bug_compat_42 is enabled.

session.bug_compat_42 = 1
session.bug_compat_warn = 1

; Check HTTP Referer to invalidate externally stored URLs containing ids.
; HTTP_REFERER has to contain this substring for the session to be
; considered as valid.
session.referer_check =

; How many bytes to read from the file.
session.entropy_length = 0

; Specified here to create the session id.
session.entropy_file =

;session.entropy_length = 16

;session.entropy_file = /dev/urandom

; Set to {nocache,private,public,} to determine HTTP caching aspects
; or leave this empty to avoid sending anti-caching headers.
session.cache_limiter = nocache

; Document expires after n minutes.
session.cache_expire = 180

; trans sid support is disabled by default.
; Use of trans sid may risk your users security.
; Use this option with caution.
; - User may send URL contains active session ID
;   to other person via. email/irc/etc.
; - URL that contains active session ID may be stored
;   in publically accessible computer.
; - User may access your site with the same session ID
;   always using URL stored in browser's history or bookmarks.
session.use_trans_sid = 0

; Select a hash function
; 0: MD5   (128 bits)
; 1: SHA-1 (160 bits)
session.hash_function = 0

; Define how many bits are stored in each character when converting
; the binary hash data to something readable.
;
; 4 bits: 0-9, a-f
; 5 bits: 0-9, a-v
; 6 bits: 0-9, a-z, A-Z, "-", ","
session.hash_bits_per_character = 4

; The URL rewriter will look for URLs in a defined set of HTML tags.
; form/fieldset are special; if you include them here, the rewriter will
; add a hidden  field with the info which is otherwise appended
; to URLs.  If you want XHTML conformity, remove the form entry.
; Note that all valid entries require a "=", even if no value follows.
url_rewriter.tags = "a=href,area=href,frame=src,input=src,form=,fieldset="

[MSSQL]
; Allow or prevent persistent links.
mssql.allow_persistent = On

; Maximum number of persistent links.  -1 means no limit.
mssql.max_persistent = -1

; Maximum number of links (persistent+non persistent).  -1 means no limit.
mssql.max_links = -1

; Minimum error severity to display.
mssql.min_error_severity = 10

; Minimum message severity to display.
mssql.min_message_severity = 10

; Compatibility mode with old versions of PHP 3.0.
mssql.compatability_mode = Off

; Connect timeout
;mssql.connect_timeout = 5

; Query timeout
;mssql.timeout = 60

; Valid range 0 - 2147483647\.  Default = 4096.
;mssql.textlimit = 4096

; Valid range 0 - 2147483647\.  Default = 4096.
;mssql.textsize = 4096

; Limits the number of records in each batch.  0 = all records in one batch.
;mssql.batchsize = 0

; Specify how datetime and datetim4 columns are returned
; On => Returns data converted to SQL server settings
; Off => Returns values as YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss
;mssql.datetimeconvert = On

; Use NT authentication when connecting to the server
mssql.secure_connection = Off

; Specify max number of processes. -1 = library default
; msdlib defaults to 25
; FreeTDS defaults to 4096
;mssql.max_procs = -1

; Specify client character set. 
; If empty or not set the client charset from freetds.comf is used
; This is only used when compiled with FreeTDS
;mssql.charset = "ISO-8859-1"

[Assertion]
; Assert(expr); active by default.
;assert.active = On

; Issue a PHP warning for each failed assertion.
;assert.warning = On

; Don't bail out by default.
;assert.bail = Off

; User-function to be called if an assertion fails.
;assert.callback = 0

; Eval the expression with current error_reporting().  Set to true if you want
; error_reporting(0) around the eval().
;assert.quiet_eval = 0

[COM]
; path to a file containing GUIDs, IIDs or filenames of files with TypeLibs
;com.typelib_file =
; allow Distributed-COM calls
;com.allow_dcom = true
; autoregister constants of a components typlib on com_load()
;com.autoregister_typelib = true
; register constants casesensitive
;com.autoregister_casesensitive = false
; show warnings on duplicate constant registrations
;com.autoregister_verbose = true

[mbstring]
; language for internal character representation.
;mbstring.language = Japanese

; internal/script encoding.
; Some encoding cannot work as internal encoding.
; (e.g. SJIS, BIG5, ISO-2022-*)
;mbstring.internal_encoding = EUC-JP

; http input encoding.
;mbstring.http_input = auto

; http output encoding. mb_output_handler must be
; registered as output buffer to function
;mbstring.http_output = SJIS

; enable automatic encoding translation according to
; mbstring.internal_encoding setting. Input chars are
; converted to internal encoding by setting this to On.
; Note: Do _not_ use automatic encoding translation for
;       portable libs/applications.
;mbstring.encoding_translation = Off

; automatic encoding detection order.
; auto means
;mbstring.detect_order = auto

; substitute_character used when character cannot be converted
; one from another
;mbstring.substitute_character = none;

; overload(replace) single byte functions by mbstring functions.
; mail(), ereg(), etc are overloaded by mb_send_mail(), mb_ereg(),
; etc. Possible values are 0,1,2,4 or combination of them.
; For example, 7 for overload everything.
; 0: No overload
; 1: Overload mail() function
; 2: Overload str*() functions
; 4: Overload ereg*() functions
;mbstring.func_overload = 0

[FrontBase]
;fbsql.allow_persistent = On
;fbsql.autocommit = On
;fbsql.show_timestamp_decimals = Off
;fbsql.default_database =
;fbsql.default_database_password =
;fbsql.default_host =
;fbsql.default_password =
;fbsql.default_user = "_SYSTEM"
;fbsql.generate_warnings = Off
;fbsql.max_connections = 128
;fbsql.max_links = 128
;fbsql.max_persistent = -1
;fbsql.max_results = 128

[gd]
; Tell the jpeg decode to libjpeg warnings and try to create
; a gd image. The warning will then be displayed as notices
; disabled by default
;gd.jpeg_ignore_warning = 0

[exif]
; Exif UNICODE user comments are handled as UCS-2BE/UCS-2LE and JIS as JIS.
; With mbstring support this will automatically be converted into the encoding
; given by corresponding encode setting. When empty mbstring.internal_encoding
; is used. For the decode settings you can distinguish between motorola and
; intel byte order. A decode setting cannot be empty.
;exif.encode_unicode = ISO-8859-15
;exif.decode_unicode_motorola = UCS-2BE
;exif.decode_unicode_intel    = UCS-2LE
;exif.encode_jis =
;exif.decode_jis_motorola = JIS
;exif.decode_jis_intel    = JIS

[Tidy]
; The path to a default tidy configuration file to use when using tidy
;tidy.default_config = /usr/local/lib/php/default.tcfg

; Should tidy clean and repair output automatically?
; WARNING: Do not use this option if you are generating non-html content
; such as dynamic images
tidy.clean_output = Off

[soap]
; Enables or disables WSDL caching feature.
soap.wsdl_cache_enabled=1
; Sets the directory name where SOAP extension will put cache files.
soap.wsdl_cache_dir="/tmp"
; (time to live) Sets the number of second while cached file will be used 
; instead of original one.
soap.wsdl_cache_ttl=86400

; Local Variables:
; tab-width: 4
; End:

apc.enabled=1                       # default = 1
apc.shm_size=256                    # default = 30

zend_extension=/usr/local/ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_5.2.so
zend_extension=/usr/local/lib/Zend/ZendOptimizer.so
zend_optimizer.optimization_level=15` [/php]

and my.cnf is here:

#
# The MySQL database server configuration file.
#
# You can copy this to one of:
# - "/etc/mysql/my.cnf" to set global options,
# - "~/.my.cnf" to set user-specific options.
# 
# One can use all long options that the program supports.
# Run program with --help to get a list of available options and with
# --print-defaults to see which it would actually understand and use.
#
# For explanations see
# http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/server-system-variables.html

# This will be passed to all mysql clients
# It has been reported that passwords should be enclosed with ticks/quotes
# escpecially if they contain "#" chars...
# Remember to edit /etc/mysql/debian.cnf when changing the socket location.
[client]
port        = 3306
socket        = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

# Here is entries for some specific programs
# The following values assume you have at least 32M ram

# This was formally known as [safe_mysqld]. Both versions are currently parsed.
[mysqld_safe]
socket        = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
nice        = 0

[mysqld]
#
# * Basic Settings
#

#
# * IMPORTANT
#   If you make changes to these settings and your system uses apparmor, you may
#   also need to also adjust /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.mysqld.
#

user        = mysql
pid-file    = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
socket        = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
port        = 3306
basedir        = /usr
datadir        = /var/lib/mysql
tmpdir        = /tmp
skip-external-locking
#
# Instead of skip-networking the default is now to listen only on
# localhost which is more compatible and is not less secure.
#bind-address        = 127.0.0.1
#
# * Fine Tuning
#

thread_stack        = 64K
thread_cache_size       = 8
# This replaces the startup script and checks MyISAM tables if needed
# the first time they are touched
myisam-recover         = BACKUP
#max_connections        = 100
table_cache            = 4
#thread_concurrency     = 10
#
# * Query Cache Configuration
#
query_cache_limit    = 1M
query_cache_size        = 16M
#
# * Logging and Replication
#
# Both location gets rotated by the cronjob.
# Be aware that this log type is a performance killer.
# As of 5.1 you can enable the log at runtime!
#general_log_file        = /var/log/mysql/mysql.log
#general_log             = 1
#
# Error logging goes to syslog due to /etc/mysql/conf.d/mysqld_safe_syslog.cnf.
#
# Here you can see queries with especially long duration
#log_slow_queries    = /var/log/mysql/mysql-slow.log
#long_query_time = 2
#log-queries-not-using-indexes
#
# The following can be used as easy to replay backup logs or for replication.
# note: if you are setting up a replication slave, see README.Debian about
#       other settings you may need to change.
#server-id        = 1
#log_bin            = /var/log/mysql/mysql-bin.log
expire_logs_days    = 10
max_binlog_size         = 100M
#binlog_do_db        = include_database_name
#binlog_ignore_db    = include_database_name
#
# * InnoDB
#
# InnoDB is enabled by default with a 10MB datafile in /var/lib/mysql/.
# Read the manual for more InnoDB related options. There are many!
#
# * Security Features
#
# Read the manual, too, if you want chroot!
# chroot = /var/lib/mysql/
#
# For generating SSL certificates I recommend the OpenSSL GUI "tinyca".
#
# ssl-ca=/etc/mysql/cacert.pem
# ssl-cert=/etc/mysql/server-cert.pem
# ssl-key=/etc/mysql/server-key.pem

[mysqldump]
quick
quote-names
max_allowed_packet    = 1M

[mysql]
#no-auto-rehash    # faster start of mysql but no tab completition

[isamchk]
key_buffer        = 16k

#
# * IMPORTANT: Additional settings that can override those from this file!
#   The files must end with '.cnf', otherwise they'll be ignored.
#
!includedir /etc/mysql/conf.d/
sort_buffer_size = 64K
sort_buffer = 64K
net_buffer_length = 2K
read_buffer_size = 4M
read_rnd_buffer_size = 2M
myisam_sort_buffer_sze = 64M
tmp_table_size = 128M
query_cache_size = 96M
query_cache_type = 1
thread_cache_size = 8
max_connections = 400
wait_timeout = 300
skip-innodb

I'm wondering if you have some very long running php scripts which are causing the server to hang, you do have a max execution time of 20 hours in your php.ini try setting it to say 3 seconds, see if it relieves the problem.

Also does your apache error log have any errors (except 404 not found)?

@haus:

Any chance you're being hit with slowloris? You can counteract that with CSF/LFD and an iptables module.

Run a netstat -nt and look for a whole lot of connections open to one IP address, that would be slowloris.

You maybe interested in my DOS Block script written in Perl which checks for DOS attacks and blocks offending IPs using iptables (similar to DDOS Deflate)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ddosperl/files/

But as mentioned above, it could be your site being slow to respond, which then grinds to a halt. As mentioned try limiting how long a request takes to be fulfilled.

I logged into lish, and I am getting this:

Killed process 26781 (apache2) vsz:600328kB, anon-rss:2764kB, file-rss:0kB                          
Out of memory: kill process 25640 (apache2) score 635833 or a child                                 
Killed process 26783 (apache2) vsz:600336kB, anon-rss:2616kB, file-rss:0kB                          
Out of memory: kill process 25640 (apache2) score 640510 or a child                                 
Killed process 26784 (apache2) vsz:599560kB, anon-rss:2876kB, file-rss:0kB                          
Out of memory: kill process 25640 (apache2) score 638168 or a child                                 
Killed process 26804 (apache2) vsz:600336kB, anon-rss:3400kB, file-rss:0kB                          
Out of memory: kill process 25640 (apache2) score 635837 or a child                                 
Killed process 26805 (apache2) vsz:599560kB, anon-rss:2776kB, file-rss:0kB                          
Out of memory: kill process 25640 (apache2) score 633495 or a child                                 
Killed process 26807 (apache2) vsz:600104kB, anon-rss:3172kB, file-rss:0kB                          
Out of memory: kill process 25640 (apache2) score 631161 or a child                                 
Killed process 26808 (apache2) vsz:599560kB, anon-rss:2872kB, file-rss:4kB                          
Out of memory: kill process 25640 (apache2) score 628819 or a child                                 
Killed process 26809 (apache2) vsz:603104kB, anon-rss:6240kB, file-rss:0kB                          
Out of memory: kill process 25640 (apache2) score 626473 or a child                                 
Killed process 26810 (apache2) vsz:600328kB, anon-rss:3052kB, file-rss:0kB                          
Out of memory: kill process 25640 (apache2) score 624128 or a child                                 
Killed process 26811 (apache2) vsz:599560kB, anon-rss:3028kB, file-rss:0kB                          
Out of memory: kill process 25640 (apache2) score 628813 or a child                                 
Killed process 26812 (apache2) vsz:599560kB, anon-rss:2900kB, file-rss:0kB                          
Out of memory: kill process 25640 (apache2) score 626471 or a child                                 
Killed process 26813 (apache2) vsz:613712kB, anon-rss:11340kB, file-rss:0kB                         
Out of memory: kill process 25640 (apache2) score 626444 or a child                                 
Killed process 26814 (apache2) vsz:599560kB, anon-rss:2796kB, file-rss:0kB                          
Out of memory: kill process 25640 (apache2) score 624102 or a child                                 
Killed process 26815 (apache2) vsz:600364kB, anon-rss:4096kB, file-rss:4kB                          
Out of memory: kill process 25640 (apache2) score 628783 or a child                                 
Killed process 26816 (apache2) vsz:599560kB, anon-rss:2756kB, file-rss:0kB                          
Out of memory: kill process 25640 (apache2) score 626441 or a child                                 
Killed process 26817 (apache2) vsz:599560kB, anon-rss:2936kB, file-rss:0kB 

I've revised the max timeout and all, but my server just got halted again…weird…never happened.

DDOS attacks? I mean…is it common?

From the looks of all the OOM, am I under some kind of vicious naughty attack?

How do I run your files?

More likely your Apache configuration isn't configured well enough for the resources you need to process requests. So you end up with too many Apache processes running for the memory you have available, start swapping (which kills performance) and then run out of memory entirely. In a properly configured system, no amount of requests should put you in an OOM condition.

There are a number of Apache tuning threads here in the forums you might reference for other ways to benchmark your system. One at http://forum.linode.com/viewtopic.php?t=6272 for example that covers some of the steps to take to monitor and test changes.

Simple first test though - try dropping MaxClients down really low (like 1 or 2), then observing your available resources under load. You can explicitly stress your node with a tool like 'ab' rather than waiting for normal traffic. Then slowly raise the setting until you are just below swapping (with some spare memory for other purposes).

Assuming you're using prefetch MPM (due to php) your current settings of 25 might be reasonable, but could also just be too high if your database working set is large, or each php request takes a lot of memory.

– David

db3l thank you very much.

I'll check it out, and report the results!

db3l thank you so much.

I'll report the results.

@cloudry:

DDOS attacks? I mean…is it common?
They don't necessarily have to be intended as DDOS attacks, sometimes it can be an over aggressive 'bot accessing every page on your site at 1000 requests a minute for example (as has happened to me recently).

As mentioned above, limit the maximum number of httpd processes, that should stop Apache using up all your resources, then find out why there are so many requests or why they're taking so long. It's not necessarily a problem having a high number of requests if you can dispatch them as quick as they arrive.

Hi,

I have revised my apache2.conf to:

StartServers 5

MinSpareServers 5

MaxSpareServers 10

ServerLimit 25

MaxClients 2

MaxRequestsPerChild 50

My apache is timing out again…This is killing me :( my visitors at my startup are getting stuck :(!!

Please let me know what else I can do.

Edward

Edward,

We may need more information on what content you are delivering?

Is this a wordpress or DRUPAL site?

If you have a PHP driven site, are you using an op-code cache like APC?

Hey!

I am using wordpress. I have about 3 different wordpress blogs running on my server. My server is the linode 1024 package one.

I am running APC also.

This is weird though…I've run APC for a long time, and it's only recently that this started to happen, and my memory isn't used up.

total used free shared buffers cached

Mem: 995 854 140 0 190 494

-/+ buffers/cache: 168 826

Swap: 255 0 255

I usually have a pretty good amount of free left in -/+ buffers/cache.

Edward

Is there any log file you would like to see? so that you can pinpoint the problemo for me? :)

@cloudry:

My apache is timing out again…This is killing me :( my visitors at my startup are getting stuck :(!!
Well, are we talking about a different problem? What do you mean by "timing out"?

Your Lish/console output showed that you were OOMing previously. Dropping the MaxClients should have helped prevent that but depending on your load (and time to process each request) could certainly create very lengthy delays in processing since now you've bottlenecked things to only 2 concurrent requests. I'm not sure if that matches what you are describing as Apache timing out, but with long enough delays I assume clients might give up.

Assuming, as you indicate, that you still have free memory with this configuration, start increasing MaxClients as long as you still have free memory and you should increase performance (as long as you don't CPU bottleneck or I/O bottleneck with, for example, database I/O). Just don't go so far that you start swapping since that's I/O you can avoid.

If you get as high as you can (memory-wise) and still can't keep up with your request load, then you've got to look at ways at improving the time to process single requests. Your use of APC is definitely already a good thing, but you might find, for example, that fronting Apache with a lower resource server (like nginx) for static content can help, since it lets the higher load Apache PHP processes only get used when necessary. Looking through some of the apache tuning forum threads (I'm pretty sure some specifically discussed wordpress) may be of help at that point.

Of course, worst case is to just grow your Linode to get more memory (and thus the ability to have additional concurrent processes) but until it's clear that you can't tune things within your current memory I wouldn't jump to that point since otherwise it might not actually help anyway.

– David

How much memory are you allocating to APC?

Are you running many plugin's? try removing all unnecessary plugins.

A 1024 linode should be able to handle quite a bit.

I couldn't see a keybuffersize if you my.cnf file, are you leaving this at default level?

Please see my phpinfo~

http://www.swagly.com/phpinfo.php

Also, I don't have a keybuffersize at all. What should I set it as?

my APC is shm size is set at 256. is that too high?

I've also increased my max clients to 10 for now.

well the final question is are you logging slow MYSQL queries? log any queries > 1second to execute…

apache processes may be backing up waiting for mysql queries to complete.

keybuffersize should be adjusted depending on how big your keyreads is, (or a better alternative Keyreadratio%)

personally I have mine set to 384M

as for APC, use apc.php to visualise how much cache you are actually utilising.. 256M is pretty big.

Okay, I've revised my APC shm size to 128, and changed my key buffer size to 384M like you have it. I'll monitor to see how this performs.

128Mb for apc is still very high, here's my stats

Cached Files 107 ( 9.3 MBytes)

Hits 415553

Misses 831

Request Rate (hits, misses) 1.52 cache requests/second

Hit Rate 1.52 cache requests/second

Miss Rate 0.00 cache requests/second

Insert Rate 0.00 cache requests/second

Cache full count 2

Also I see my apache2s running (shown in screenshot), but they are not responding…

www.swagly.com/1.png

www.swagly.com/2.png

What else can I post here to help get the root problem fixed?

And I definitely wasn't running out of memory…

total used free shared buffers cached

Mem: 995 823 171 0 192 411

-/+ buffers/cache: 219 775

Swap: 255 0 255

Anything unusual show up in your Apache error log (or VirtualHost specific logs, if configured)? Particularly around the times your apache goes unresponsive?

I see a lot of this:

[Thu Mar 10 20:28:20 2011] [error] [client 113.142.19.34] script '/var/www/nomorefilter/index2.php' not found or unable to stat, referer: http://image.soso.com/

[Thu Mar 10 20:28:21 2011] [error] [client 65.55.3.199] script '/var/www/nomorefilter/index2.php' not found or unable to stat

[Thu Mar 10 20:30:56 2011] [apc-warning] Potential cache slam averted for key 'alphanumericAPP_4E4ABDD8DC00C3DACB3C1597944A3B6C' in /var/www/casealchemy/lib/Zend/Cache/Backend/Apc.php on line 112.

[Thu Mar 10 20:30:56 2011] [apc-warning] Potential cache slam averted for key 'alphanumericSTOREADMINCONFIG_CACHE' in /var/www/casealchemy/lib/Zend/Cache/Backend/Apc.php on line 112.

[Thu Mar 10 20:30:56 2011] [apc-warning] Potential cache slam averted for key 'alphanumericAPP_B1FB6E8F13287C01E5C05063633DDA4C' in /var/www/casealchemy/lib/Zend/Cache/Backend/Apc.php on line 112.

[Thu Mar 10 20:30:57 2011] [apc-warning] Unable to allocate memory for pool. in /var/www/casealchemy/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Template.php on line 212.

[Thu Mar 10 20:30:57 2011] [apc-warning] Unable to allocate memory for pool. in /var/www/casealchemy/lib/Varien/Autoload.php on line 93.

[Thu Mar 10 20:30:57 2011] [apc-warning] Unable to allocate memory for pool. in /var/www/casealchemy/lib/Varien/Autoload.php on line 93.

[Thu Mar 10 20:30:57 2011] [apc-warning] Unable to allocate memory for pool. in /var/www/casealchemy/lib/Varien/Autoload.php on line 93.

[Thu Mar 10 20:30:57 2011] [apc-warning] Unable to allocate memory for pool. in /var/www/casealchemy/lib/Varien/Autoload.php on line 93.

[Thu Mar 10 20:30:57 2011] [apc-warning] Unable to allocate memory for pool. in /var/www/casealchemy/lib/Varien/Autoload.php on line 93.

[Thu Mar 10 20:30:57 2011] [apc-warning] Unable to allocate memory for pool. in /var/www/casealchemy/lib/Varien/Autoload.php on line 93.

[Thu Mar 10 20:30:57 2011] [apc-warning] Unable to allocate memory for pool. in /var/www/casealchemy/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Template.php on line 212.

[Thu Mar 10 20:30:57 2011] [apc-warning] Unable to allocate memory for pool. in /var/www/casealchemy/lib/Varien/Autoload.php on line 93.

[Thu Mar 10 20:30:57 2011] [apc-warning] Unable to allocate memory for pool. in /var/www/casealchemy/lib/Varien/Autoload.php on line 93.

[Thu Mar 10 20:30:57 2011] [apc-warning] Unable to allocate memory for pool. in /var/www/casealchemy/lib/Varien/Autoload.php on line 93.

And a couple of lines down there are:

[Thu Mar 10 20:32:31 2011] [apc-warning] Unable to allocate memory for pool.

[Thu Mar 10 20:32:31 2011] [apc-warning] Unable to allocate memory for pool. in /var/www/tangfreres/index.php on line 21.

[Thu Mar 10 20:32:31 2011] [apc-warning] Unable to allocate memory for pool. in /var/www/tangfreres/index.php on line 22.

[Thu Mar 10 20:32:31 2011] [apc-warning] Unable to allocate memory for pool. in /var/www/tangfreres/includes/framework.php on line 43.

[Thu Mar 10 20:32:31 2011] [apc-warning] Unable to allocate memory for pool. in /var/www/tangfreres/libraries/joomla/import.php on line 21.

[Thu Mar 10 20:32:31 2011] [apc-warning] Unable to allocate memory for pool. in /var/www/tangfreres/libraries/loader.php on line 140.

[Thu Mar 10 20:32:31 2011] [apc-warning] Unable to allocate memory for pool. in /var/www/tangfreres/libraries/loader.php on line 140.

[Thu Mar 10 20:32:31 2011] [apc-warning] Unable to allocate memory for pool. in /var/www/tangfreres/includes/framework.php on line 46.

[Thu Mar 10 20:32:31 2011] [apc-warning] Unable to allocate memory for pool. in /var/www/tangfreres/includes/framework.php on line 67.

Eh, I'm out of my league. Searching Google for those errors revealed various fixes and bug reports, but only one instance where someone said they were leading to pages not loading. In that case the fix was to add "apc.slam_defense = Off;" to php.ini. I didn't see that directive in your posted php.ini, maybe worth some more digging into that error message.

I don't use APC. If it could be the source of your problem, is there a way to flip a switch and run without it to simplify things while you try to identify the source of the issue? Sites running slower than normal would be better than not running at all while you get this solved.

you are OOM'ing no doubt about it.

can you post a screen of HTOP or TOP with the memory usage ordered from highest to lowest.

I will try that. But I don't know, I had APC on for a long time, it's never happened before, and my traffic isn't even that heavy.

My free -m was actually showing that I had free memory, and a lot of it.

total used free shared buffers cached

Mem: 995 823 171 0 192 411

-/+ buffers/cache: 219 775

Swap: 255 0 255

I still had 775 >_<

still OOM?

Please check out www.swagly.com/1.png

any way my mysql is causing this?!

httpd is running around 80mb/instance, which is high.

I'm thinking it is probably something to do with a joomla plugin you have running.

you may have some benefit running nginx and reverse proxy the php to apache, or use lighttpd and fast cgi.

My joomla, sugarCRM, and socialengine websites don't get any traffic. That will also deplete my memory?

That's the thing about modphp and mpmprefork. Every interpreter must be equally prepared for any possible HTTP request at any time.

Is squid doing anything in the processing chain? I notice it's running.

Sorry, I actually dont know what squid is, or if I've installed it.

Any way to monitor it?

@cloudry:

My free -m was actually showing that I had free memory, and a lot of it.
Just a dumb question, but this free output is taken from exactly the moment in time when your requests are hanging right? Memory status can change very rapidly.

If in fact you do have that much memory free, then it certainly doesn't seem like a system-wide OOM, but perhaps some component has its own limit that is being exceeded. I think I'd concur with the other suggestion about seeing about disabling apc for the time being (given that's who seems to be logging about the memory failures). I'm assuming those failures might result in something failing to execute properly, which could then hang a response.

I understand you've been running with apc it for a long time, but something clearly changed recently and at this point I think you're better off having as few components running as you can get away with until you can get a better handle on what is going on. Then you can add stuff back in.

In terms of your mysql question, certainly mysqld is going to need resources, but again if your free output above is representative, you're not hurting for memory right at the moment so I wouldn't worry about that too much. If you want you could make sure you have slow query logging enabled (log-slow-queries and log-query-time parameters), so at least you'll know if mysql is contributing significantly to processing time for requests.

Depending on how hard it is to simplify your configuration, you might even start considering using a second, temporary, Linode for testing. You could clone your current Linode to it (with a few tweaks for network configuration and host name), then use it for testing making it easier to hack and slash the configuration until you've got stability.

Of course, if your primary Linode is essentially unusable at the moment, not sure how much worse it can get using it to experiment in that case.

Bottom line I guess my best overall suggestion at this point is simplify things as much as you can, to as few components as possible in an attempt to achieve basic stability, even if you have to do so at a cost to overall req/s throughput. You've got to reach a baseline that is at least stable since right now I suspect you might have had more than one issue over time contributing to the behavior you have seen. For example, you were clearly OOMing at one point (given your console logs) but now seem to have enough memory, so something else is happening.

Once you have some sort of baseline, you can start tweaking parameters and adding back components while continuing to stress the system and watching stats (cpu, memory, I/O, log files, etc..) and hopefully once it becomes unstable again, have a decent chance at identifying the component or resource that is the root cause.

– David

David,

I did the free -m when my apache was hanging, so I do think I probably wasn't OOMing?

Thank you so much for your feedback. I had just stopped squid from running, (thanks hoopycat) and I'm going to see if my apache is going to stall again.

I'll wait for it to stall again, and monitor it again and change the parameters again.

And I've adjusted Max Clients according to your suggestion, but they werent making a difference…and it seems like, it was almost always taking the same amount of time for my server to stall. After i restart apache2 it'd work for a day or so, then it'd stall again. weirdness.

Edward

Try to set

KeepAlive Off

in apache config.

After half a year of testing, my server still goes down after a month or so. I am able to log into ssh. I checked into htop and terminated most of the processes that are hogging my memory, but even so, I still cannot access any of my web pages. I've changed my maxclients to very low…to like 10, and my server is 1GB memory.

Please let me know what else I can do. This server hanging is becoming a nuance! Thanks!

@oz "KeepAlive Off" worked for me Thx!

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