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UN Calls on Israel to Open Nuclear Facilities
WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, 10 Dec 2012
Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service
4 Dec 2012 — The U.N. General Assembly has overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling on Israel to quickly open its nuclear program for inspection and backing a high-level conference to ban nuclear weapons from the Middle East which was just canceled.
All the Arab nations and Iran had planned to attend the conference in mid-December in Helsinki, Finland, but the United States announced on Nov. 23 that it wouldn't take place, citing political turmoil in the region and Iran's defiant stance on nonproliferation. Iran and some Arab nations countered that the real reason for the cancellation was Israel's refusal to attend.
The resolution, approved Monday [3 Dec 2012] by a vote of 174-6 with 6 abstentions, calls on Israel to join the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty "without further delay" and open its nuclear facilities to inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Those voting "no" were Israel, the U.S., Canada, Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Palau.
Resolutions adopted by the 193-member General Assembly are not legally binding but they do reflect world opinion and carry moral and political weight.
Israel refuses to confirm or deny it has nuclear bombs though it is widely believed to have a nuclear arsenal. It has refused to join the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, or NPT, along with three nuclear weapon states — India, Pakistan and North Korea.
The Arab proposal to create a weapons-of-mass-destruction-free zone in the Mideast, and to pressure Israel to give up its undeclared arsenal of perhaps 80 nuclear warheads, was endorsed at an NPT conference in 1995 but never acted on. In 2010, the 189 parties to the 1970 treaty called for convening a conference in 2012 on the establishment of a WMD-free zone in the Middle East.
The resolution, which was approved by the assembly's disarmament committee before the conference was cancelled, noted the decision to hold it "with satisfaction."
But Israel has long said there first must be a Mideast peace agreement before the establishment of a Mideast zone free of weapons of mass destruction. The region's Muslim nations argue that Israel's undeclared nuclear arsenal presents the greatest threat to peace in the region.
The Israeli government had no immediate comment on Monday's General Assembly vote.
Last week, the General Assembly upgraded the Palestinians to that of a nonmember observer state, endorsing an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank, east Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip.
Just before Monday's vote, Iranian diplomat Khodadad Seifi told the assembly "the truth is that the Israeli regime is the only party which rejected to conditions for a conference." He called for "strong pressure on that regime to participate in the conference without any preconditions."
Israeli diplomat Isi Yanouka said his country has continuously pointed to the danger of nuclear proliferation in the Mideast, singling out Iran and Syria by name.
"All these cases challenge Israel's security and cast a dark shadow at the prospect of embarking on a meaningful regional security process," he said.
"The fact that the sponsors include in this anti-Israeli resolution language referring to the 2012 conference proves above all the ill-intent of the Arab states with regard to this conference," Yanouka said.
Syrian diplomat Abdullah Hallak told the assembly his government was angry that the conference wasn't going to take place because of "the whim of just one party, a party with nuclear warheads."
"We call on the international community to put pressure on Israel to accept the NPT, get rid of its arsenal and delivery systems, in order to allow for peace and stability in our region," he said.
The conference's main sponsors are the U.S., Russia and Britain. British Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt has said it is being postponed, not cancelled.
While the United States voted against the resolution, it voted in favor of two paragraphs in it that were put to separate votes. Both support universal adherence to the NPT, and call on those countries that aren't parties to ratify it "at the earliest date." The only "no" votes on those paragraphs were Israel and India.
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In a "black site" at an undisclosed location, a CIA officer is interrogating a man suspected of having information on the courier of Osama bin Laden. The suspect, Ammar (Reda Kateb), believes he can withstand the waterboarding, the dog collar, the sleep and food deprivation, the heavy metal music that hammers his warehouse cell 24 hours a day; he boldly asserts that "jihad will go on for a hundred years." But as his captor, Dan (Jason Clarke), patiently explains, "In the end, bro, everybody breaks. It's biology." Ammar turns to Dan's silent partner, Maya (Jessica Chastain), and cries, "Your friend is an animal. Please help me." The ordeal continues. That's diplomacy, by any means necessary.
The 9/11 attacks instantly created a new world disorder, changing the face of the enemy from cranky tyrants to a stateless ascetic with the dream of crippling infidel America. Al-Qaeda's coup also rendered the old book of counterintelligence ethics obsolete. Bribes and blackmail were still permitted, but no gentlemen or ladies needed enlist in the war on terror. The stakes were too high, as Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal, the director and writer of The Hurt Locker, document in their powerhouse thriller Zero Dark Thirty. "I want targets!" shouts George (Mark Strong), a high-level CIA official, to his agents in the field. "Do your f—in' job. Bring me people to kill." At this time, Leon Panetta (James Gandolfini) is the CIA director, and Maya has been working for years to locate Mr. Big — to bring in the head of Osama bin Laden.
(MORE: TIME's Review of The Hurt Locker)
Surrounded by tattooed enforcers like Dan and upper-management toughies like George, Maya at first seems as pale and petite as a naked mole rat. When Dan is transferred back home and Maya assumes control of the interrogations, her boss warns her, "You don't want to be the last one holding the dog collar when the oversight committee comes." But Maya has developed copper callouses and steely reserve, especially after some of her closest colleagues were blown to bits in the 2009 suicide bombing at the Camp Chapman base in Afghanistan, which killed seven CIA agents. Maya believes she was spared so she could finish the job. "I'm gonna smoke everybody involved in this op," she says of the Camp Chapman attack. "And then I'm gonna kill bin Laden."
The making of Zero Dark Thirty, which opens on Dec. 19 in a few theaters before expanding in January, was an operation nearly as complex and secretive as the one that took down bin Laden. Some industry analysts, inferring that the movie was all about the May 1, 2011, SEAL Team 6 raid that killed the al-Qaeda leader, wondered why a woman had the leading role. (The raid consumes just the final fifth of the movie.) The clandestine nature of the enterprise also stoked sepulchral suspicions, both on the right and the center-left, that ZDT would be a mash note to Barack Obama, who gave the go-ahead for the raid, while George W. Bush proclaimed in 2004 that "I really just don't spend that much time on [bin Laden]" and Mitt Romney in 2007 said it was "not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person."
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Before the movie had begun shooting, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd asserted that "the White House has outsourced the job of manning up the President's image to Hollywood." Peter King, the House Republican who chairs the Homeland Security Committee, promised an investigation of any aid the Obama Administration might have afforded Boal; and the Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund, a political action group stocked with Tea Party Express members and ex-Bush officials involved in the Iraq war, produced a YouTube video charging the film with "dishonorable disclosures" — as if the Defense Department didn't pour millions into supplying hardware and expertise to Hollywood movies (Transformers, Act of Valor and dozens of others) and government insiders didn't routinely spill secrets to journalists like Bob Woodward. And Dowd.
For the record, Bigelow received no help from the U.S. government — no lending of aircraft or weaponry — in the depiction of the Abbottabad, Pakistan, raid or of any other military activity. And we would hope that Boal, like any investigative reporter, received knowledgeable help in getting his facts straight. Further, this is in no way a political film; it carries neither a torch for Obama (who is seen only for seconds, promising in a 2008 news clip to end waterboarding) nor the agitated imprint of an Oliver Stone film. Essentially, it's a police procedural on a grand scale.
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First and last, Zero Dark Thirty is a movie, and a damned fine one. Like Argo — which, with all due respect to director Ben Affleck and the film's many admirers, ZDT blows out of the water — it dramatizes a true-life international adventure with CIA agents as the heroes. (And it takes fewer fictional liberties with the source material than Affleck did.) In the tradition of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff, Boal tracked down the particulars of a sensational exploit and, skipping the "nonfiction novel" stage, created an original screenplay that provides a streamlined timeline of the hunt for bin Laden. The word docudrama doesn't hint at Boal's achievement. This is movie journalism that snaps and stings, that purifies a decade's clamor and clutter into narrative clarity, with a salutary kick.
(MORE: TIME's Review of Argo)
It's a subject perfect for Bigelow. She has wrangled complex stories about cops (Blue Steel), undercover FBI agents (Point Break) and nuclear-submarine commanders (K19: The Widowmaker) and in the process proved herself to be one of cinema's most inventive visual strategists and field commanders — and, in a nice way, Hollywood's ballsiest director. Perched between the serene classicism of old Hollywood and the jittery crazy-cam of the Bourne era, Bigelow's style is terse and assured. There's no question which side she's on, but she allows virtually all the characters, American and Middle Eastern, their moments of reason or sympathy. In this case she is neither prosecutor nor judge — simply the sharpest, most attentive member of the jury.
In The Hurt Locker, which won Oscars for Best Director and Original Screenplay, Bigelow and Boal viewed the war on terror in a microcosm, through the eyes of a trio of bomb defusers in Iraq. ZDT is a macrocosm. Instead of a Baghdad street where an IED could explode underfoot, Maya and her colleagues tread a minefield that stretches from Kabul to Times Square. Though it focuses on the determination and resilience of Maya (who is based on a real CIA tracker), the film is a giant fresco, an imposing series of surgical strikes set in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Poland and the U.S. For a throbbing 2 hours and 40 minutes, ZDT moves through enemy territory with the speed, weight, brains and grace of a Pro Bowl NFL linebacker; it's the Lawrence Taylor of war-ops movies.
(LIST: 10 Greatest Movies of the Millennium, Thus Far: The Hurt Locker, More)
With the dense dialogue spread across more than 100 speaking roles, the supporting actors could be mere information carriers, but many make excellent use of their limited screen time: Clarke as the hard-case interrogator with a Ph.D., Kateb as his victim-informer, Kyle Chandler as Maya's suave, cautious station boss, Jennifer Ehle as a warm, seen-it-all field agent and Edgar Ramirez as an operative who tracks bin Laden on an edgy ride through Islamabad. Chastain takes a while to grow into Maya's skin, but her tentativeness in the early scenes may be an accurate depiction of a young woman just out of college, enduring the growing pains of a difficult matriculation in a killer job.
As a bright young woman driven to bring down an al-Qaeda terrorist, Maya shares aspects of Claire Danes' Carrie Mathison in the Showtime series Homeland, but she lacks Carrie's defining neuroses — and much other personal biography. What are Maya's political beliefs? Who are her family and friends back home? Does she have a sex life? Doesn't matter: she is her job. In a way, Maya is the CIA equivalent of Bigelow, a strong woman who has mastered a man's game.
(MORE: Kathryn Bigelow Profile: The Front Runner)
At the end, the woman who finds bin Laden also finds an end to her sacred obsession. And eight years to the day after Bush prematurely announced it, a U.S. official has earned the right to proclaim, "Mission accomplished." So too, with this splendid sortie into cinematic reportage, can Kathryn Bigelow.
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Release date: May 10, 2016
Last updated: June 10, 2016
Vulnerability identifier: APSB16-16
Priority: 2
CVE numbers: CVE-2016-1113, CVE-2016-1114, CVE-2016-1115
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Adobe has released security hotfixes for ColdFusion versions 10, 11 and the 2016 release. These hotfixes resolve an input validation issue (CVE-2016-1113), a host name verification problem with wild card certificates (CVE-2016-1115) and include an updated version of Apache Commons Collections library to mitigate java deserialization (CVE-2016-1114).
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Product | Affected Versions | Platform |
ColdFusion (2016 release) | 2016.0.0 | All |
ColdFusion 11 | Update 7 and earlier versions | All |
ColdFusion 10 | Update 18 and earlier versions | All |
Adobe categorizes this hotfix with the following priority rating and recommends users update their installations to the newest versions:
Adobe recommends ColdFusion customers update their installation using the instructions provided in the relevant technote:
- ColdFusion (2016 release): http://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/kb/coldfusion-2016-update-1.html
- ColdFusion 11: http://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/kb/coldfusion-11-update-8.html
- ColdFusion 10: http://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/kb/coldfusion-10-update-19.html
Customers should also apply the security configuration settings as outlined on the ColdFusion Security page as well as review the respective Lockdown guide.
- These hotfixes resolve an important input validation issue (CVE-2016-1113) that could be abused to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
- These hotfixes include an updated version of the Apache Commons Collections library to mitigate an important Java deserialization vulnerability (CVE-2016-1114).
- These hotfixes resolve a moderate host name verification problem affecting wild card certificates (CVE-2016-1115).
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- Andrew Bonstrom (CVE-2016-1113)
- Aaron Foote (CVE-2016-1114)
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Apache 2.x is a general-purpose webserver, designed to provide a balance of flexibility, portability, and performance. Although it has not been designed specifically to set benchmark records, Apache 2.x is capable of high performance in many real-world situations.
Compared to Apache 1.3, release 2.x contains many additional optimizations to increase throughput and scalability. Most of these improvements are enabled by default. However, there are compile-time and run-time configuration choices that can significantly affect performance. This document describes the options that a server administrator can configure to tune the performance of an Apache 2.x installation. Some of these configuration options enable the httpd to better take advantage of the capabilities of the hardware and OS, while others allow the administrator to trade functionality for speed.
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, and divide this into your total available memory,
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If your OS supports a sendfile(2)
call, make sure you install the release and/or patches
needed to enable it. (With Linux, for example, this means
using Linux 2.4 or later. For early releases of Solaris 8,
you may need to apply a patch.) On systems where it is
available, sendfile
enables Apache 2 to deliver
static content faster and with lower CPU utilization.
Related Modules | Related Directives |
Prior to Apache 1.3, HostnameLookups
defaulted to On
This adds latency to every request because it requires a
DNS lookup to complete before the request is finished. In
Apache 1.3 this setting defaults to Off
. If you need
to have addresses in your log files resolved to hostnames, use the
program that comes with Apache, or one of the numerous log
reporting packages which are available.
It is recommended that you do this sort of postprocessing of your log files on some machine other than the production web server machine, in order that this activity not adversely affect server performance.
If you use any
or Allow
from domain
directives (i.e., using a hostname, or a domain name, rather than
an IP address) then you will pay for
two DNS lookups (a reverse, followed by a forward lookup
to make sure that the reverse is not being spoofed). For best
performance, therefore, use IP addresses, rather than names, when
using these directives, if possible.Deny
from domain
Note that it's possible to scope the directives, such as
within a <Location "/server-status">
In this case the DNS lookups are only performed on requests
matching the criteria. Here's an example which disables lookups
except for .html
and .cgi
HostnameLookups off <Files ~ "\.(html|cgi)$"> HostnameLookups on </Files>
But even still, if you just need DNS names in some CGIs you
could consider doing the gethostbyname
call in the
specific CGIs that need it.
Wherever in your URL-space you do not have an Options
, or you do have an Options
, Apache will need to issue extra
system calls to check up on symlinks. (One extra call per
filename component.) For example, if you had:
DocumentRoot "/www/htdocs" <Directory "/"> Options SymLinksIfOwnerMatch </Directory>
and a request is made for the URI /index.html
then Apache will perform lstat(2)
, /www/htdocs
, and
. The results of these
are never cached, so they will occur on
every single request. If you really desire the symlinks
security checking, you can do something like this:
DocumentRoot "/www/htdocs" <Directory "/"> Options FollowSymLinks </Directory> <Directory "/www/htdocs"> Options -FollowSymLinks +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch </Directory>
This at least avoids the extra checks for the
Note that you'll need to add similar sections if you
have any Alias
outside of your document root. For highest performance,
and no symlink protection, set FollowSymLinks
everywhere, and never set SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Wherever in your URL-space you allow overrides (typically
files), Apache will attempt to open
for each filename component. For
DocumentRoot "/www/htdocs" <Directory "/"> AllowOverride all </Directory>
and a request is made for the URI /index.html
Then Apache will attempt to open /.htaccess
, and
. The solutions are similar
to the previous case of Options FollowSymLinks
For highest performance use AllowOverride None
everywhere in your filesystem.
If at all possible, avoid content negotiation if you're really interested in every last ounce of performance. In practice the benefits of negotiation outweigh the performance penalties. There's one case where you can speed up the server. Instead of using a wildcard such as:
DirectoryIndex index
Use a complete list of options:
DirectoryIndex index.cgi index.pl index.shtml index.html
where you list the most common choice first.
Also note that explicitly creating a type-map
file provides better performance than using
, as the necessary information can be
determined by reading this single file, rather than having to
scan the directory for files.
If your site needs content negotiation, consider using
files, rather than the Options
directive to accomplish the negotiation. See the
Content Negotiation
documentation for a full discussion of the methods of negotiation,
and instructions for creating type-map
In situations where Apache 2.x needs to look at the contents
of a file being delivered--for example, when doing server-side-include
processing--it normally memory-maps the file if the OS supports
some form of mmap(2)
On some platforms, this memory-mapping improves performance. However, there are cases where memory-mapping can hurt the performance or even the stability of the httpd:
On some operating systems, mmap
does not scale
as well as read(2)
when the number of CPUs increases.
On multiprocessor Solaris servers, for example, Apache 2.x sometimes
delivers server-parsed files faster when mmap
is disabled.
If you memory-map a file located on an NFS-mounted filesystem and a process on another NFS client machine deletes or truncates the file, your process may get a bus error the next time it tries to access the mapped file content.
For installations where either of these factors applies, you
should use EnableMMAP off
to disable the memory-mapping
of delivered files. (Note: This directive can be overridden on
a per-directory basis.)
In situations where Apache 2.x can ignore the contents of the file
to be delivered -- for example, when serving static file content --
it normally uses the kernel sendfile support for the file if the OS
supports the sendfile(2)
On most platforms, using sendfile improves performance by eliminating separate read and send mechanics. However, there are cases where using sendfile can harm the stability of the httpd:
Some platforms may have broken sendfile support that the build system did not detect, especially if the binaries were built on another box and moved to such a machine with broken sendfile support.
With an NFS-mounted filesystem, the kernel may be unable to reliably serve the network file through its own cache.
For installations where either of these factors applies, you
should use EnableSendfile off
to disable sendfile
delivery of file contents. (Note: This directive can be overridden
on a per-directory basis.)
Prior to Apache 1.3 the MinSpareServers
, MaxSpareServers
, and StartServers
settings all had drastic effects on
benchmark results. In particular, Apache required a "ramp-up"
period in order to reach a number of children sufficient to serve
the load being applied. After the initial spawning of
only one child per second would be created to satisfy the
setting. So a server being accessed by 100 simultaneous
clients, using the default StartServers
of 5
would take on
the order of 95 seconds to spawn enough children to handle
the load. This works fine in practice on real-life servers
because they aren't restarted frequently. But it does really
poorly on benchmarks which might only run for ten minutes.
The one-per-second rule was implemented in an effort to
avoid swamping the machine with the startup of new children. If
the machine is busy spawning children, it can't service
requests. But it has such a drastic effect on the perceived
performance of Apache that it had to be replaced. As of Apache
1.3, the code will relax the one-per-second rule. It will spawn
one, wait a second, then spawn two, wait a second, then spawn
four, and it will continue exponentially until it is spawning
32 children per second. It will stop whenever it satisfies the
This appears to be responsive enough that it's almost
unnecessary to twiddle the MinSpareServers
, MaxSpareServers
and StartServers
knobs. When more than 4 children are
spawned per second, a message will be emitted to the
. If you
see a lot of these errors, then consider tuning these settings.
Use the mod_status
output as a guide.
Related to process creation is process death induced by the
setting. By default this is 0
which means that there is no limit to the number of connections
handled per child. If your configuration currently has this set
to some very low number, such as 30
, you may want to bump this
up significantly. If you are running SunOS or an old version of
Solaris, limit this to 10000
or so because of memory leaks.
When keep-alives are in use, children will be kept busy
doing nothing waiting for more requests on the already open
connection. The default KeepAliveTimeout
of 5
seconds attempts to minimize this effect. The tradeoff here is
between network bandwidth and server resources. In no event
should you raise this above about 60
seconds, as
most of the benefits are lost.
Apache 2.x supports pluggable concurrency models, called
Multi-Processing Modules (MPMs).
When building Apache, you must choose an MPM to use. There
are platform-specific MPMs for some platforms:
, and mpm_winnt
. For
general Unix-type systems, there are several MPMs from which
to choose. The choice of MPM can affect the speed and scalability
of the httpd:
MPM uses multiple child
processes with many threads each. Each thread handles
one connection at a time. Worker generally is a good
choice for high-traffic servers because it has a smaller
memory footprint than the prefork MPM.event
MPM is threaded like the
Worker MPM, but is designed to allow more requests to be
served simultaneously by passing off some processing work
to supporting threads, freeing up the main threads to work
on new requests.prefork
MPM uses multiple child
processes with one thread each. Each process handles
one connection at a time. On many systems, prefork is
comparable in speed to worker, but it uses more memory.
Prefork's threadless design has advantages over worker
in some situations: it can be used with non-thread-safe
third-party modules, and it is easier to debug on platforms
with poor thread debugging support.For more information on these and other MPMs, please see the MPM documentation.
Since memory usage is such an important consideration in
performance, you should attempt to eliminate modules that you are
not actually using. If you have built the modules as DSOs, eliminating modules is a simple
matter of commenting out the associated LoadModule
directive for that module.
This allows you to experiment with removing modules and seeing
if your site still functions in their absence.
If, on the other hand, you have modules statically linked into your Apache binary, you will need to recompile Apache in order to remove unwanted modules.
An associated question that arises here is, of course, what
modules you need, and which ones you don't. The answer here
will, of course, vary from one web site to another. However, the
minimal list of modules which you can get by with tends
to include mod_mime
, mod_dir
and mod_log_config
. mod_log_config
of course, optional, as you can run a web site without log
files. This is, however, not recommended.
Some modules, such as mod_cache
recent development builds of the worker MPM, use APR's
atomic API. This API provides atomic operations that can
be used for lightweight thread synchronization.
By default, APR implements these operations using the
most efficient mechanism available on each target
OS/CPU platform. Many modern CPUs, for example, have
an instruction that does an atomic compare-and-swap (CAS)
operation in hardware. On some platforms, however, APR
defaults to a slower, mutex-based implementation of the
atomic API in order to ensure compatibility with older
CPU models that lack such instructions. If you are
building Apache for one of these platforms, and you plan
to run only on newer CPUs, you can select a faster atomic
implementation at build time by configuring Apache with
the --enable-nonportable-atomics
./configure --with-mpm=worker --enable-nonportable-atomics=yes
The --enable-nonportable-atomics
option is
relevant for the following platforms:
however, APR generates code that uses a SPARC v8plus opcode for
fast hardware compare-and-swap. If you configure Apache with
this option, the atomic operations will be more efficient
(allowing for lower CPU utilization and higher concurrency),
but the resulting executable will run only on UltraSPARC
however, APR generates code that uses a 486 opcode for fast
hardware compare-and-swap. This will result in more efficient
atomic operations, but the resulting executable will run only
on 486 and later chips (and not on 386).
If you include mod_status
and you also set
ExtendedStatus On
when building and running
Apache, then on every request Apache will perform two calls to
(or times(2)
depending on your operating system), and (pre-1.3) several
extra calls to time(2)
. This is all done so that
the status report contains timing indications. For highest
performance, set ExtendedStatus off
(which is the
This section has not been fully updated to take into account changes made in the 2.x version of the Apache HTTP Server. Some of the information may still be relevant, but please use it with care.
This discusses a shortcoming in the Unix socket API. Suppose
your web server uses multiple Listen
statements to listen on either multiple
ports or multiple addresses. In order to test each socket
to see if a connection is ready, Apache uses
. select(2)
indicates that a
socket has zero or at least one connection
waiting on it. Apache's model includes multiple children, and
all the idle ones test for new connections at the same time. A
naive implementation looks something like this (these examples
do not match the code, they're contrived for pedagogical
for (;;) { for (;;) { fd_set accept_fds; FD_ZERO (&accept_fds); for (i = first_socket; i <= last_socket; ++i) { FD_SET (i, &accept_fds); } rc = select (last_socket+1, &accept_fds, NULL, NULL, NULL); if (rc < 1) continue; new_connection = -1; for (i = first_socket; i <= last_socket; ++i) { if (FD_ISSET (i, &accept_fds)) { new_connection = accept (i, NULL, NULL); if (new_connection != -1) break; } } if (new_connection != -1) break; } process_the(new_connection); }
But this naive implementation has a serious starvation problem.
Recall that multiple children execute this loop at the same
time, and so multiple children will block at
when they are in between requests. All
those blocked children will awaken and return from
when a single request appears on any socket.
(The number of children which awaken varies depending on the
operating system and timing issues.) They will all then fall
down into the loop and try to accept
connection. But only one will succeed (assuming there's still
only one connection ready). The rest will be blocked
in accept
. This effectively locks those children
into serving requests from that one socket and no other
sockets, and they'll be stuck there until enough new requests
appear on that socket to wake them all up. This starvation
problem was first documented in PR#467. There
are at least two solutions.
One solution is to make the sockets non-blocking. In this
case the accept
won't block the children, and they
will be allowed to continue immediately. But this wastes CPU
time. Suppose you have ten idle children in
, and one connection arrives. Then nine of
those children will wake up, try to accept
connection, fail, and loop back into select
accomplishing nothing. Meanwhile none of those children are
servicing requests that occurred on other sockets until they
get back up to the select
again. Overall this
solution does not seem very fruitful unless you have as many
idle CPUs (in a multiprocessor box) as you have idle children
(not a very likely situation).
Another solution, the one used by Apache, is to serialize entry into the inner loop. The loop looks like this (differences highlighted):
for (;;) { accept_mutex_on (); for (;;) { fd_set accept_fds; FD_ZERO (&accept_fds); for (i = first_socket; i <= last_socket; ++i) { FD_SET (i, &accept_fds); } rc = select (last_socket+1, &accept_fds, NULL, NULL, NULL); if (rc < 1) continue; new_connection = -1; for (i = first_socket; i <= last_socket; ++i) { if (FD_ISSET (i, &accept_fds)) { new_connection = accept (i, NULL, NULL); if (new_connection != -1) break; } } if (new_connection != -1) break; } accept_mutex_off (); process the new_connection; }
The functions
and accept_mutex_off
implement a mutual exclusion semaphore. Only one child can have
the mutex at any time. There are several choices for
implementing these mutexes. The choice is defined in
(pre-1.3) or
(1.3 or later). Some
architectures do not have any locking choice made, on these
architectures it is unsafe to use multiple
The Mutex
directive can
be used to change the mutex implementation of the
mutex at run-time. Special considerations
for different mutex implementations are documented with that
Another solution that has been considered but never implemented is to partially serialize the loop -- that is, let in a certain number of processes. This would only be of interest on multiprocessor boxes where it's possible that multiple children could run simultaneously, and the serialization actually doesn't take advantage of the full bandwidth. This is a possible area of future investigation, but priority remains low because highly parallel web servers are not the norm.
Ideally you should run servers without multiple
statements if you want the highest performance.
But read on.
The above is fine and dandy for multiple socket servers, but
what about single socket servers? In theory they shouldn't
experience any of these same problems because all the children
can just block in accept(2)
until a connection
arrives, and no starvation results. In practice this hides
almost the same "spinning" behavior discussed above in the
non-blocking solution. The way that most TCP stacks are
implemented, the kernel actually wakes up all processes blocked
in accept
when a single connection arrives. One of
those processes gets the connection and returns to user-space.
The rest spin in the kernel and go back to sleep when they
discover there's no connection for them. This spinning is
hidden from the user-land code, but it's there nonetheless.
This can result in the same load-spiking wasteful behavior
that a non-blocking solution to the multiple sockets case
For this reason we have found that many architectures behave
more "nicely" if we serialize even the single socket case. So
this is actually the default in almost all cases. Crude
experiments under Linux (2.0.30 on a dual Pentium pro 166
w/128Mb RAM) have shown that the serialization of the single
socket case causes less than a 3% decrease in requests per
second over unserialized single-socket. But unserialized
single-socket showed an extra 100ms latency on each request.
This latency is probably a wash on long haul lines, and only an
issue on LANs. If you want to override the single socket
serialization, you can define
, and then
single-socket servers will not serialize at all.
As discussed in draft-ietf-http-connection-00.txt section 8, in order for an HTTP server to reliably implement the protocol, it needs to shut down each direction of the communication independently. (Recall that a TCP connection is bi-directional. Each half is independent of the other.)
When this feature was added to Apache, it caused a flurry of
problems on various versions of Unix because of shortsightedness.
The TCP specification does not state that the FIN_WAIT_2
state has a timeout, but it doesn't prohibit it.
On systems without the timeout, Apache 1.2 induces many sockets
stuck forever in the FIN_WAIT_2
state. In many cases this
can be avoided by simply upgrading to the latest TCP/IP patches
supplied by the vendor. In cases where the vendor has never
released patches (i.e., SunOS4 -- although folks with
a source license can patch it themselves), we have decided to
disable this feature.
There are two ways to accomplish this. One is the socket
option SO_LINGER
. But as fate would have it, this
has never been implemented properly in most TCP/IP stacks. Even
on those stacks with a proper implementation (i.e.,
Linux 2.0.31), this method proves to be more expensive (cputime)
than the next solution.
For the most part, Apache implements this in a function
called lingering_close
). The function looks roughly like
void lingering_close (int s) { char junk_buffer[2048]; /* shutdown the sending side */ shutdown (s, 1); signal (SIGALRM, lingering_death); alarm (30); for (;;) { select (s for reading, 2 second timeout); if (error) break; if (s is ready for reading) { if (read (s, junk_buffer, sizeof (junk_buffer)) <= 0) { break; } /* just toss away whatever is here */ } } close (s); }
This naturally adds some expense at the end of a connection,
but it is required for a reliable implementation. As HTTP/1.1
becomes more prevalent, and all connections are persistent,
this expense will be amortized over more requests. If you want
to play with fire and disable this feature, you can define
, but this is not recommended at all.
In particular, as HTTP/1.1 pipelined persistent connections
come into use, lingering_close
is an absolute
necessity (and
pipelined connections are faster, so you want to support
Apache's parent and children communicate with each other
through something called the scoreboard. Ideally this should be
implemented in shared memory. For those operating systems that
we either have access to, or have been given detailed ports
for, it typically is implemented using shared memory. The rest
default to using an on-disk file. The on-disk file is not only
slow, but it is unreliable (and less featured). Peruse the
file for your architecture, and
look for either USE_MMAP_SCOREBOARD
. Defining one of those two
(as well as their companions HAVE_MMAP
respectively) enables the supplied
shared memory code. If your system has another type of shared
memory, edit the file src/main/http_main.c
and add
the hooks necessary to use it in Apache. (Send us back a patch
too, please.)
If you have no intention of using dynamically loaded modules
(you probably don't if you're reading this and tuning your
server for every last ounce of performance), then you should add
when building your
server. This will save RAM that's allocated only for supporting
dynamically loaded modules.
Here is a system call trace of Apache 2.0.38 with the worker MPM on Solaris 8. This trace was collected using:
truss -l -p httpd_child_pid.
The -l
option tells truss to log the ID of the
LWP (lightweight process--Solaris' form of kernel-level thread)
that invokes each system call.
Other systems may have different system call tracing utilities
such as strace
, ktrace
, or par
They all produce similar output.
In this trace, a client has requested a 10KB static file from the httpd. Traces of non-static requests or requests with content negotiation look wildly different (and quite ugly in some cases).
/67: accept(3, 0x00200BEC, 0x00200C0C, 1) (sleeping...) /67: accept(3, 0x00200BEC, 0x00200C0C, 1) = 9
In this trace, the listener thread is running within LWP #67.
serialization. On this
particular platform, the worker MPM uses an unserialized accept by
default unless it is listening on multiple ports./65: lwp_park(0x00000000, 0) = 0 /67: lwp_unpark(65, 1) = 0
Upon accepting the connection, the listener thread wakes up a worker thread to do the request processing. In this trace, the worker thread that handles the request is mapped to LWP #65.
/65: getsockname(9, 0x00200BA4, 0x00200BC4, 1) = 0
In order to implement virtual hosts, Apache needs to know
the local socket address used to accept the connection. It
is possible to eliminate this call in many situations (such
as when there are no virtual hosts, or when
are used which do not have wildcard addresses). But
no effort has yet been made to do these optimizations.
/65: brk(0x002170E8) = 0 /65: brk(0x002190E8) = 0
The brk(2)
calls allocate memory from the heap.
It is rare to see these in a system call trace, because the httpd
uses custom memory allocators (apr_pool
) for most request processing.
In this trace, the httpd has just been started, so it must
call malloc(3)
to get the blocks of raw memory
with which to create the custom memory allocators.
/65: fcntl(9, F_GETFL, 0x00000000) = 2 /65: fstat64(9, 0xFAF7B818) = 0 /65: getsockopt(9, 65535, 8192, 0xFAF7B918, 0xFAF7B910, 2190656) = 0 /65: fstat64(9, 0xFAF7B818) = 0 /65: getsockopt(9, 65535, 8192, 0xFAF7B918, 0xFAF7B914, 2190656) = 0 /65: setsockopt(9, 65535, 8192, 0xFAF7B918, 4, 2190656) = 0 /65: fcntl(9, F_SETFL, 0x00000082) = 0
Next, the worker thread puts the connection to the client (file
descriptor 9) in non-blocking mode. The setsockopt(2)
and getsockopt(2)
calls are a side-effect of how
Solaris' libc handles fcntl(2)
on sockets.
/65: read(9, " G E T / 1 0 k . h t m".., 8000) = 97
The worker thread reads the request from the client.
/65: stat("/var/httpd/apache/httpd-8999/htdocs/10k.html", 0xFAF7B978) = 0 /65: open("/var/httpd/apache/httpd-8999/htdocs/10k.html", O_RDONLY) = 10
This httpd has been configured with Options FollowSymLinks
and AllowOverride None
. Thus it doesn't need to
each directory in the path leading up to the
requested file, nor check for .htaccess
It simply calls stat(2)
to verify that the file:
1) exists, and 2) is a regular file, not a directory.
/65: sendfilev(0, 9, 0x00200F90, 2, 0xFAF7B53C) = 10269
In this example, the httpd is able to send the HTTP response
header and the requested file with a single sendfilev(2)
system call. Sendfile semantics vary among operating systems. On some other
systems, it is necessary to do a write(2)
call to send the headers before calling
/65: write(4, " 1 2 7 . 0 . 0 . 1 - ".., 78) = 78
This write(2)
call records the request in the
access log. Note that one thing missing from this trace is a
call. Unlike Apache 1.3, Apache 2.x uses
to look up the time. On some operating
systems, like Linux or Solaris, gettimeofday
has an
optimized implementation that doesn't require as much overhead
as a typical system call.
/65: shutdown(9, 1, 1) = 0 /65: poll(0xFAF7B980, 1, 2000) = 1 /65: read(9, 0xFAF7BC20, 512) = 0 /65: close(9) = 0
The worker thread does a lingering close of the connection.
/65: close(10) = 0 /65: lwp_park(0x00000000, 0) (sleeping...)
Finally the worker thread closes the file that it has just delivered and blocks until the listener assigns it another connection.
/67: accept(3, 0x001FEB74, 0x001FEB94, 1) (sleeping...)
Meanwhile, the listener thread is able to accept another connection
as soon as it has dispatched this connection to a worker thread (subject
to some flow-control logic in the worker MPM that throttles the listener
if all the available workers are busy). Though it isn't apparent from
this trace, the next accept(2)
can (and usually does, under
high load conditions) occur in parallel with the worker thread's handling
of the just-accepted connection.