Is apache killing my process?

Question

I have a strange problem regarding lucene and apache. I am using lucene for full text search and for a search I need to call:

initVM()

I found out that after this call nothing gets executed. So this all happens for a http request handled through apache.

Now when I try to do this manually in the interactive command prompt it works fine.

These are some relavent apache configuration lines below:

<IfModule prefork.c>
StartServers       8
MinSpareServers    5
MaxSpareServers   20
ServerLimit      150000
MaxClients       150000
MaxRequestsPerChild  40000
</IfModule>


<IfModule worker.c>
StartServers         8
MaxClients         1200
MinSpareThreads     25
MaxSpareThreads     75
ThreadsPerChild     45
MaxRequestsPerChild  15
</IfModule>

edit

when executing it manually it creates 9 threads I think:

├─sshd───sshd───sshd───bash─┬─pstree
│                           └─python───9*[{python}]

thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Lucene is really meant to be for client applications. For a webapp use, you should really use solr which is installed in a separate web container. Hope this helps.