On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 15:27:24 +0300, Yannis Tsakiris <gtsakiris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So far so good, but in an arbitrary moment all apache processes stop serving > requests, and all of the processes are trying to consume a lot of cpu time, > and load average is increasing very fast (at the end the load average is > almost equal to the number of running apache processes, which is 500). In > this condition the server is not responding and all I can do is to reboot > the machine. If you can use the shell, then you should do some debugging: attach to the processes with gdb and strace and see what they are up to. It is unlikely that this is an apache-httpd problem. More likely one of your scripts is getting stuck someplace. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx