Comment 3 for bug 710319

Hi Scott,

Thank you for your time. I did what you suggest, and I've noticed two strange things.

1. Compiling showed me the following warnings:

gcc -o mytest mytest.c -lpthread
mytest.c: In function ‘child’:
mytest.c:83: warning: format ‘%3d’ expects type ‘int’, but argument 4 has type ‘ clock_t’
mytest.c:83: warning: format ‘%d’ expects type ‘int’, but argument 5 has type ‘c lock_t’
mytest.c:83: warning: format ‘%d’ expects type ‘int’, but argument 6 has type ‘c lock_t’
and so on ...

2. I was not able to test it with 500threads - it is production server, so ... I did it with 16.

Here is the result:

 ./mytest 16
### Prep:
loops_per_tick: 289017
threads : 16

### Test:
looptype : cont
samplesleep : no
 ## start ##
 ## done. ##
 loop total:
  user : 8800 ms
  system : 80 ms
  elapse : 4000 ms
  error : 0

result: GOOD

Segmentation fault
^^^

Result is good - but there is a segmentation fault.

Furthermore, testing with apache, I found that the source of the problem are the threads that are dying - because if I leave MaxSpareServers=MaxClients and MaxRequestsPerChild=0 ( so no thread is killed) then CPU usage seems normal.