[cobalt-developers] SSLSessionCache problem

[Clive Holloway <clive@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I have a very disturbing and rather perplexing problem and wondered if anyone 
could supply any insight....

Our server freezes around twice a day, always an httpd process - not a cgi 
related one (it's owned by httpd). This process is taking up 98% of cpu.

in apache error logs, I see lots of these:

[Mon Sep 10 17:15:28 2001] [error] mod_ssl: Cannot open SSLSessionCache DBM 
file `/var/log/httpd/ssl_scache' for writing (store) (System error follows)
[Mon Sep 10 17:15:29 2001] [error] mod_ssl: SSL handshake timed out (client 
213.122.121.211, server ########.co.uk:443)

In httpd.conf we have:

SSLSessionCache        dbm:/var/log/httpd/ssl_cache
SSLSessionCacheTimeout 300
SSLMutex               file:/var/log/httpd/ssl_mutex
SSLRandomSeed startup  file:/dev/urandom 512
SSLRandomSeed connect  builtin

I have very little understanding of what this SSL related problem is. It just 
happened one day, and has stayed with us ever since.

As an attempted fix, I upgraded mod_ssl and ssl and it doesn't seem to have 
changed anything.

Our secure server doesn't get massively hit compared to the rest of the 
system. 

If anybody has any thoughts, I'd definitely appreciate them.

thanks

cLive ;-)

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Clive Holloway
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