We've recently been hitting our maxclients (300) on our server and are noticing a lot of connections are stuck in the R reading state. Here's an excerpt from our server-status dump:
Current Time: Monday, 29-Apr-2013 11:46:00 PDT
Restart Time: Monday, 29-Apr-2013 11:03:48 PDT
Parent Server Generation: 0
Server uptime: 42 minutes 12 seconds
Total accesses: 144170 - Total Traffic: 29.8 MB
CPU Usage: u188.25 s345.65 cu2601.11 cs0 - 124% CPU load
56.9 requests/sec - 12.0 kB/second - 216 B/request
244 requests currently being processed, 56 idle workers
KRR_RRRRRRRRRRRR_RRRKRRRR.......................................
K_RRK_RK_RKR_RRR_RRRR_R_R.......................................
RRRRRRRRRRRRRC_CR___RCRR_.......................................
R_RRRCRRRRRRRRCRRRCRRKRCR.......................................
R_K_RKR_CRRRRRRKC_RR_KR_R.......................................
RRRRKRR__RRRRKRRCR_RRRRRR.......................................
_RCRRRRRRRRRKR__RR_RRCRRR.......................................
RRRRRRRRCRRRRRRKRRRR_RCRR.......................................
R___RRCR__RR__RRRKC___RK_.......................................
_R_KCR__RR__R_R_RRRRRR_RK.......................................
RRR_RR___RCRRK_R_RWRR_RRC.......................................
RRKRCRRRRRRRRKRRRRRRRRCRR.......................................
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Scoreboard Key:
"_" Waiting for Connection, "S" Starting up, "R" Reading Request,
"W" Sending Reply, "K" Keepalive (read), "D" DNS Lookup,
"C" Closing connection, "L" Logging, "G" Gracefully finishing,
"I" Idle cleanup of worker, "." Open slot with no current process
Srv PID Acc M CPU SS Req Conn Child Slot Client VHost Request
0-0 10320 1/718/718 K 399.14 0 42 0.0 0.21 0.21 69.171.178.24 mysite.com GET /home.php
0-0 10320 0/434/434 R 398.21 8 40 0.0 0.07 0.07 ? ? ..reading..
0-0 10320 0/548/548 R 331.52 558 45 0.0 0.12 0.12 ? ? ..reading..
0-0 10320 0/460/460 _ 399.05 0 42 0.0 0.08 0.08 98.129.101.123 mysite.com GET /home.php
0-0 10320 0/473/473 R 364.89 301 48 0.0 0.09 0.09 ? ? ..reading..
0-0 10320 0/616/616 R 396.18 26 46 0.0 0.11 0.11 ? ? ..reading..
0-0 10320 0/494/494 R 378.84 127 48 0.0 0.10 0.10 ? ? ..reading..
0-0 10320 0/231/231 R 311.62 687 43 0.0 0.04 0.04 ? ? ..reading..
0-0 10320 0/376/376 R 391.17 76 53 0.0 0.08 0.08 ? ? ..reading..
0-0 10320 0/377/377 R 380.72 176 53 0.0 0.07 0.07 ? ? ..reading..
0-0 10320 0/589/589 R 355.07 382 47 0.0 0.10 0.10 ? ? ..reading..
0-0 10320 0/587/587 R 393.16 56 50 0.0 0.13 0.13 ? ? ..reading..
0-0 10320 0/561/561 R 393.89 49 40 0.0 0.10 0.10 ? ? ..reading..
0-0 10320 0/616/616 R 389.88 81 41 0.0 0.22 0.22 ? ? ..reading..
0-0 10320 0/354/354 R 392.12 59 42 0.0 0.06 0.06 ? ? ..reading..
0-0 10320 0/346/346 R 377.51 192 44 0.0 0.06 0.06 ? ? ..reading..
Why are there so many in that R state? And does the SS column really mean that they have been reading for 558, 301, etc seconds?
Here's some of my server info and settings:
Server version: Apache/2.2.24 (Unix)
Server built: Mar 22 2013 10:57:57
Cpanel::Easy::Apache v3.18.9 rev9999
Server's Module Magic Number: 20051115:31 Server loaded: APR 1.4.6, APR-Util 1.4.1 Compiled using: APR 1.4.6, APR-Util 1.4.1
Architecture: 64-bit
Server MPM: Worker
threaded: yes (fixed thread count)
forked: yes (variable process count)
Server compiled with....
-D APACHE_MPM_DIR="server/mpm/worker"
-D APR_HAS_SENDFILE
-D APR_HAS_MMAP
-D APR_HAVE_IPV6 (IPv4-mapped addresses enabled) -D APR_USE_SYSVSEM_SERIALIZE -D APR_USE_PTHREAD_SERIALIZE -D SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT -D APR_HAS_OTHER_CHILD -D AP_HAVE_RELIABLE_PIPED_LOGS -D DYNAMIC_MODULE_LIMIT=128 -D HTTPD_ROOT="/usr/local/apache"
-D SUEXEC_BIN="/usr/local/apache/bin/suexec"
-D DEFAULT_SCOREBOARD="logs/apache_runtime_status"
-D DEFAULT_ERRORLOG="logs/error_log"
-D AP_TYPES_CONFIG_FILE="conf/mime.types"
-D SERVER_CONFIG_FILE="conf/httpd.conf"
StartServers 5
<IfModule prefork.c>
MinSpareServers 5
MaxSpareServers 10
</IfModule>
ServerLimit 300
MaxClients 300
MaxRequestsPerChild 10000
KeepAlive On
KeepAliveTimeout 1
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
Here are compiled in modules:
core.c
mod_authn_file.c
mod_authn_dbm.c
mod_authn_dbd.c
mod_authn_default.c
mod_authn_alias.c
mod_authz_host.c
mod_authz_groupfile.c
mod_authz_user.c
mod_authz_dbm.c
mod_authz_default.c
mod_auth_basic.c
mod_auth_digest.c
mod_file_cache.c
mod_cache.c
mod_disk_cache.c
mod_include.c
mod_filter.c
mod_deflate.c
mod_log_config.c
mod_log_forensic.c
mod_logio.c
mod_env.c
mod_mime_magic.c
mod_expires.c
mod_headers.c
mod_unique_id.c
mod_setenvif.c
mod_version.c
mod_proxy.c
mod_proxy_connect.c
mod_proxy_ftp.c
mod_proxy_http.c
mod_proxy_scgi.c
mod_proxy_ajp.c
mod_proxy_balancer.c
mod_ssl.c
worker.c
http_core.c
mod_mime.c
mod_dav.c
mod_status.c
mod_autoindex.c
mod_asis.c
mod_info.c
mod_suexec.c
mod_cgid.c
mod_dav_fs.c
mod_dav_lock.c
mod_negotiation.c
mod_dir.c
mod_actions.c
mod_speling.c
mod_userdir.c
mod_alias.c
mod_rewrite.c
mod_so.c
When we restart the reading requests slowly start building back up every time. Thanks for your help in advance!
UPDATE: here's netstat -pn:
tcp 0 0 198.57.162.52:80 54.235.31.205:41209 TIME_WAIT -
tcp 0 0 198.57.162.52:80 166.147.121.170:63246 TIME_WAIT -
tcp 0 0 198.57.162.52:80 50.128.171.238:50751 FIN_WAIT2 -
tcp 0 0 198.57.162.52:80 89.241.135.84:24825 TIME_WAIT -
tcp 0 0 198.57.162.52:80 205.142.167.225:33256 TIME_WAIT -
tcp 0 0 198.57.162.52:80 76.127.87.244:56493 TIME_WAIT -
tcp 0 0 198.57.162.52:80 205.153.156.222:21571 TIME_WAIT -
tcp 0 0 198.57.162.52:80 108.12.147.14:61135 TIME_WAIT -
tcp 0 0 198.57.162.52:80 166.217.157.32:1630 TIME_WAIT -
tcp 0 0 198.57.162.52:443 71.22.102.71:4252 TIME_WAIT -
Sample lsof output:
httpd 4092 nobody 25u IPv4 711278095 0t0 TCP 198-57-162-52.unifiedlayer.com:http->4.sub-70-193-66.myvzw.com:12471 (ESTABLISHED)
httpd 4092 nobody 26u IPv4 711350284 0t0 TCP 198-57-162-52.unifiedlayer.com:http->c75-111-15-253.amrlcmta01.tx.dh.suddenlink.net:51298 (ESTABLISHED)
httpd 4092 nobody 27u IPv4 711400163 0t0 TCP 198-57-162-52.unifiedlayer.com:http->108-235-145-129.lightspeed.irvnca.sbcglobal.net:56037 (FIN_WAIT2)
httpd 4092 nobody 28u IPv4 711390092 0t0 TCP 198-57-162-52.unifiedlayer.com:http->c-98-239-167-37.hsd1.pa.comcast.net:57988 (ESTABLISHED)
httpd 4092 nobody 29u IPv4 711206563 0t0 TCP 198-57-162-52.unifiedlayer.com:http->252.sub-70-199-129.myvzw.com:6179 (ESTABLISHED)
httpd 4092 nobody 30u IPv4 711271036 0t0 TCP 198-57-162-52.unifiedlayer.com:https->5.71.20.78:62114 (ESTABLISHED)
httpd 4092 nobody 31u IPv4 711385050 0t0 TCP 198-57-162-52.unifiedlayer.com:http->64.128.135.115:17547 (ESTABLISHED)
httpd 4092 nobody 32u IPv4 711400374 0t0 TCP 198-57-162-52.unifiedlayer.com:https->mbb5336d0.tmodns.net:36277 (ESTABLISHED)
httpd 4092 nobody 33u IPv4 711378965 0t0 TCP 198-57-162-52.unifiedlayer.com:http->us-chi-exchange.brightstarcorp.com:47707 (ESTABLISHED)
httpd 4092 nobody 34u IPv4 711394997 0t0 TCP 198-57-162-52.unifiedlayer.com:https->209-152-137-170.dsl.mcmo.net:64370 (ESTABLISHED)
httpd 4092 nobody 35u IPv4 711391122 0t0 TCP 198-57-162-52.unifiedlayer.com:http->c-76-125-136-230.hsd1.oh.comcast.net:57093 (ESTABLISHED)
httpd 4092 nobody 36u IPv4 711398994 0t0 TCP 198-57-162-52.unifiedlayer.com:http->lookup.eatright.org:60021 (ESTABLISHED)
httpd 4092 nobody 37u IPv4 711400972 0t0 TCP 198-57-162-52.unifiedlayer.com:http->modemcable126.224-130-66.mc.videotron.ca:55970 (ESTABLISHED)
httpd 4092 nobody 38u IPv4 711379727 0t0 TCP 198-57-162-52.unifiedlayer.com:http->c-75-65-146-83.hsd1.ms.comcast.net:50309 (ESTABLISHED)
httpd 4092 nobody 39u IPv4 711390427 0t0 TCP 198-57-162-52.unifiedlayer.com:https->66-87-130-177.pools.spcsdns.net:41127 (ESTABLISHED)
httpd 4092 nobody 40u IPv4 711401179 0t0 TCP 198-57-162-52.unifiedlayer.com:http->8.225.196.132:20608 (ESTABLISHED)
httpd 4092 nobody 41u IPv4 711142701 0t0 TCP 198-57-162-52.unifiedlayer.com:http->c-24-15-33-77.hsd1.il.comcast.net:54631 (ESTABLISHED)
Best Answer
@ShaneN Your server is reaching choke of resources point-of-failure. Maybe you're getting without ephemeral port range, or without system file-descriptors, which limits the number of sockets your server can use to answer requests. A reading state request means that the socket was opened, but the request line never reached the server, it's a known form of DoS called SlowLoris. To mitigate this kind of DoS, I'd first:
Add to
/etc/sysctl.conf, the following entries:net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout = 10which sets the timeout ofFINsockets to 10seconds.net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = "15000 61000"which sets the ephemeral port range to about 46000 possible open ports per IP.net.core.somaxconn = 1024- default 128 - Thenet.core.somaxconnvalue has an important role. It limits the maximum number of requests queued to a listen socket.net.core.netdev_max_backlog = 2000- default 1000 - which increases the TCP queue of incoming requests.After adding those lines to the file, issue
sysctl -pto load the kernel parameters at the current runtime and check your rush hour to see if your problem's still there.