Re: [Pound Mailing List] FreeBSD and failed requests

     I initially tried 2.0.4 built by hand against a separate  
OpenSSL built with threading enabled, ran Apache bench against it  
which showed all the failed requests, so I then built the version out  
of ports which is 1.9 to see if that would give me any insight as to  
what was happening.  1.9 out of ports generated the same issue  
however.  By ports, I'm referring to the FreeBSD ports/packages build  
system, not an OS service port.
     The Pound process isn't logging anything useful.  I've tried  
running it directly as root thinking that as user www it may be  
running into errors writing out, but still there was nothing despite  
LogLevel being set to 2.  It logs the startup and that is all.  As  
for what gets logged on the web server for the client request, it  
looks like this:

192.168.0.5 - - [04/May/2006:11:14:39 -0700] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 17  
"-" "ApacheBench/2.0.41-dev"

     The transaction is very simple, ApacheBench is just getting a  
one line text file.  It's about as unsophisticated and basic as can  
be.  As it just makes the same request over and over, I would think  
that if ApacheBench were making a malformed request they should all  
fail.  The request path of my test setup looks like this:

With Pound:

FreeBSD client -> FreeBSD firewall -> FreeBSD Pound server -> FreeBSD  
Apache server

Without Pound:

FreeBSD client -> FreeBSD firewall -> FreeBSD Apache server

     With the possibility of the dedicated Pound server being a pile  
of crap, I then moved Pound 2.0.4 directly onto the firewall machine,  
which then made the request path look like this:

FreeBSD client -> FreeBSD firewall/Pound -> FreeBSD Apache server

     Still, 70-80% failed request rate.  It would seem that Pound  
and FreeBSD are not getting along at this point.

On May 4, 2006, at 11:45 AM, Ted Dunning wrote:

> You say something about being out of ports with 1.9.  That seems  
> impossible if you are sending 50 requests with no request concurrency.
>
> What do the server logs say when you are using pound?
>
> Also, what kind of transactions are these?  Is there a possibility  
> that pound is rejecting many of them as ill-formed?

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