Problems with Mapserv and ArcSDE layer

[Ivano Picco]

Hi,
  After many tests I found a workaround to the "cgi process   zombified   when you made an 
ArcSDE request by WMS" problem. 
I launch a "timeout" shell script (like this:  
http://www.shelldorado.com/scripts/cmds/timeout) inside a simple wrapper script.  
This timeout script  executes a mapserv cgi process and launchs a watchdog who kills   
the "zombie" after a timeout .  As you can see this is not a good solution for the problem. 
My tests reveal   an improvement on number of requests  per second (+35%), because the   
timeout kills all the processes who fill the apache request stack.    
I think I will reach the maximun performance only when I can use cgi without a wrapper. 
I hope you will solve this soon,  
Best regards,
Ivano.