CGI script terminating prematurely 1

[scbrow]

I have a cgi script (.exe) that runs successfully 90% of the time - but it occasionally terminates prior to completion. When this happens I get "Page cannot be displayed" error. No errors appear in the log when this happens.

I am currently using apache. The site was previously hosted on Windows 2000 and the error never occurred - so I assume this is a server configuration problem.

This is a tough problem to debug - so any thoughts would be appreciated.

thanks.
site: NutrientFacts.com

 

[siberian]

Sounds to me al ike a memory leak in the cgi or something.

Does the access_log record a connection? What status does it return?

 

[scbrow]

An access log record was logged. The status was 200.

Following the error, I did a refresh and the page displayed correctly. The access log records were identical for both server requests - except the refresh also had a log value for images on the page.

Sometimes when the error happens, I briefly see a partial display of the page - as if the script terminated prior to completing. As stated, this never happened on the other server.

Thanks.

 

[siberian]

If you set your MaxRequestsPerChild to '0' does the problem go away?

 

[scbrow]

Thanks for the recommendation. I made the change but unfortunately the problem still happens.

 

[cdlvj]

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/FAQ.html#premature-script-headers

Look at the above.

 

[scbrow]

I tried setting RLimitCPU, RLimitMEM, and RLimitNPROC to large numbers but still no luck. Thanks for the suggestion.

 

[scbrow]

For anyone who is interested - I installed xp pro on the server and the problem went away. I was using xp home.

 

[ericbrunson]

Gotta love Microsoft.

 

[cdlvj]

Many thanks for sharing the resolution to the problem.
Usually people find a fix, and never update the status of the question.
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