[ic] Died in server spawn: read: closed

[Grant]

>>> I'm getting messages like this in my global error log every few days:
>>>
>>> Died in server spawn: read: closed at
>>> /usr/local/interchange/lib/Vend/Server.pm line 728.
>>>
>>> Today a user described what I think was a 500 Internal Server Error
>>> apache2 error page which corresponds to one of these errors.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know more about what could be happening or how to track it down?
>>>
>>> - Grant
>>
>> Have you checked your Apache error logs for entries at that same time?
>>
>> DB
>
> I've just done that and I see that the error corresponds to this
> apache2 error message about half of the time:
>
> close: Broken pipe\n,
>
> It always seems to be a POST and it can be SSL or not.  Any idea where
> to look from here?
>
> - Grant

I wonder if this could be solved by increasing SocketReadTimeout:

"This directive is used to configure the amount of time (in seconds)
that Interchange will wait for incoming request data to arrive on an
open socket."

http://www.interchange.rtfm.info/icdocs/config/SocketReadTimeout.html

The downside of increasing the value is said to be an increased
susceptibility to a certain type of DoS attack.

- Grant