Gentlefolk,
I had an incident yesterday where
the Apache web server host had a load average of over 170
and was performing very slowly. Stopping the web server did
fix the issue but when I restarted the daemons the load
started to increase very quickly. I ended up having to
reboot the system to fix the issue. I don’t like that one
bit, this is a Linux system not a Windows server. (Editorial
remark: I have found that systems need reboots to fix stuff
much more frequently since the adoption of systemd) I have
been asked to do a root cause analysis, but I have not found
anything as of yet. I am reaching out for help in this
matter.
The system is a RHEL7 ESX VM with
the Red Hat’s main line distribution of Apache 2.4 as
opposed to the RHSCL version. The configuration is quite
complex and a bit sensitive so I cannot share all of that.
What I’m looking for is technics to look at what happened
rather than being given the answer anyway.
Darryl
Baker
(he/him/his)
Sr.
System Administrator
Distributed
Application Platform Services
Northwestern
University
1800
Sherman Ave.
Suite
6-600 – Box #39
Evanston,
IL 60201-3715
darryl.baker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(847)
467-6674
