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mod_status shows loads of weird lines, eg:
29-1 - 0/0/1 . 0.00 10322 28 0.0 0.00 0.00 x.y.z.a (unavailable) GET /reports/latest.html HTTP/1.030-1 - 0/0/1 . 0.00 10312 34 0.0 0.00 0.00 x.y.z.a (unavailable) GET /cgi-bin/certificate.cgi/732.gif HTTP/1.1
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eventually the number of these reaches MaxClients, wedging the server
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hung process backtrace like this:
(gdb) bt#0 0x28129b0f in write () from /lib/libc.so.5 #1 0x281babb7 in config_log_transaction () from /usr/local/libexec/apache/mod_log_config.so #2 0x281bac24 in multi_log_transaction () from /usr/local/libexec/apache/mod_log_config.so #3 0x08051e9e in run_method () #4 0x08051f3e in ap_log_transaction () #5 0x080628e6 in ap_process_request () #6 0x0805b6ca in child_main () #7 0x0805b8e5 in make_child () #8 0x0805bb9b in perform_idle_server_maintenance () #9 0x0805c09c in standalone_main () #10 0x0805c613 in main ()
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Which leads me to this nugget one of the blocks:
CustomLog | /dev/null
Classy! It's stranger still since it's next to a CustomLog directive that does indeed log to disk