[grsec] Grsecurity + apache listening on multiple ports + excessive load

[Paul Day]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Adriano Caloiaro wrote:
> Hello, I've run into a rather unusual problem the last few days.  I'm 
> running apache 2.0.50 on 2 dell poweredge 2650 servers. Apache runs fine 
> when I have it simply listening on port 80 for http connections, but 
> when I have it listening on port 80 & 443 at the same time, the load on 
> the server(s) almost immediately jump to 4.0.  However, this only 
> happens while I'm running a grsecurity kernel and not the stock kernel 
> from my distro.  Is anyone aware of what might cause this sort of 
> behavior? Thanks

Interesting... Not much use to you, but I'm doing something similar and 
I'm _not_ having this problem. I'm running two chroot-ed web-servers, both 
bound to two ports each, on a Debian Sarge box with a 2.4 kernel and grsec 
compiled in. Load is normal.

I am, however, running Apache 1, not 2.

PD

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