[newb at MySQL] are there buffers settings? are you using squid? how is your port range (wide enough?) {very wild guess) ----- Original Message ----- From: "seb hould" <apache.ml@xxxxxxxxx> To: <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 7:17 PM Subject: Re: [users@httpd] apache attack > Apache 1.3.29 > RedHat Linux 9, kernel 2.4.20-31.9 > PHP 4.3.4 > MySQL 4.1.7 > > First all thanks for the tips. I checked the MySQL error logs but > unfortunately it is not as verbose as I wish it would be. The > /var/log/message tells me the first apache process killed was at 15:10 > (so it maxed at that time). So I looked at all the requests from that > time up until 15:27 when I stopped Apache. There were continuous > requests but I believe these were requests that Apache could serve > without the help of the db (this is not 100% checked but it does seem > like it) and there seem to be less requests than in usual > circumstances. The Apache error log reports nothing unusual. I did > get a tip though that a user ran a newsletter-sending PHP script > roughly at 14:47. The script has been used many times before and > never failed but it does issue many SQL requests. The culprit is > probably the MySQL server. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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