From: Joshua Slive <jslive@xxxxxxxxx> To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Monday, March 28, 2005, 6:44:08 PM Subject: [users@httpd] Strange Problem Monday, March 28, 2005, 6:44:08 PM, you wrote: > 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 Couldn't it be a configuration limit in the httpd.conf ? (Such as maxconnection, etc) --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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