Greetings,

Would anyone have any insight as to why Apache would require a graceful restart after exactly 30000 requests to perl scripts on a webserver?

To test I have the following script running on the shell of the server:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use lib "/web_sites/cgi-modules";

use LWP::Simple;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request;
use HTTP::Response;
use HTML::LinkExtor;


my $url = "http://devintranet2/cgi-bin/environment.pl";

my $counter = 0;


while ($counter < 60000) {

    my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new();
    $browser->timeout(10);
        
    my $request = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url);
    my $response = $browser->request($request);
    if ($response->is_error()) {
        #printf "%s\n", $response->status_line;
            $counter = $counter + 1;
            print "$counter [";
            printf "%s]\n", $response->status_line;
            die;
    } 
        
    my $contents = $response->content();
    
    #print "$contents";
    #sleep(0.3);
    $counter = $counter + 1;
    print "$counter [";
    printf "%s]\n", $response->status_line;

}

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We have apache v.2 and perl 5.8. running on HP-UX. Subsequent calls give 500 Internal Server Error. (everything else on the web server is functional and from the shell, perl scripts still run fine indefinately). The httpd.conf has the following, but changing values does not affect the 30k max requests before CGI becomes unavailable: 
<IfModule worker.c>
ServerLimit         16
StartServers         2
MaxClients         150
MinSpareThreads     25
MaxSpareThreads     75
ThreadsPerChild     25
MaxRequestsPerChild  0
</IfModule>

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(I beg forgiveness if this question is more mod_perl / apache related) Thanks everyone.

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