Hello, and thank you for the reply! First of all I am not using any dynamically loaded module, and I am not realyy using the proxy module either. I could eaily rmove them and get the same functonality Here is the output of pstack of a process taking nearly 50% cpu I will try to get gdb working if this is not saying anything to anyone I tried running pstack on the same process at intervals, and the output looks pretty much the same every time pstack -F 28263 28263: /usr/local/apache_prod/bin/httpd -k start ff309df4 apr_pool_cleanup_kill (45b798, 1f7f30, ffffffff, 7efefeff, 81010100, ff00) + 20 0003d51c ap_http_header_filter (1e1ca8, 45b798, 1e3971, 45c9c0, 68, 3d0d4) + 448 0006861c ap_pass_brigade (1e1ca8, 45b798, ffbff050, 45c9c0, a6d70, 0) + 44 0006acac ap_content_length_filter (1, 45b798, ff375c9c, 45c9c0, 4549a8, 6ac10) + 9c 0006861c ap_pass_brigade (1e1c90, 45b798, 45b798, 45b79c, 45b79c, 1d91b8) + 44 0006861c ap_pass_brigade (1e2328, 45b7b8, 1e1c90, 1f7f30, 1e2328, 45b7bc) + 44 0006b350 ap_rflush (1e1010, ffffffff, 1e1010, 0, 0, 0) + 44 feda80e0 cb_write_body (ffbff714, 1f7f30, ffffffff, 0, 0, 0) + f0 fedbef4c writeResponseBody (ffbff480, 1f7f30, ffffffff, 7efefeff, 81010100, ff00) + 2c fedc7794 esiResponsePassThru (ffbff480, 1cf900, 1e3971, 48, 68, ff0a7c14) + e4 fedc7310 esiResponseWrite (1cf928, 1, 1, 0, 6f0008, 73000000) + 28 fedc3c64 esiHandleRequest (ffbff480, 1, ffffffff, 7efefeff, 81010100, ff00) + f4 fedb22f8 websphereHandleRequest (ffbff714, 1e1da0, f4240, f4240, 74, 72) + 350 feda7560 as_handler (1e1010, 1e20dc, 116708, 0, a5c10, 12bbb0) + 150 0005a388 ap_run_handler (1e1010, 0, 3b, 0, 12b610, 12b6a0) + 3c 0005a948 ap_invoke_handler (1101c8, 90800, 1e1010, 0, feea0020, 1) + 78 0003f890 ap_process_request (1e1010, a6800, 4, 1e1010, a6868, 0) + b0 0003aab0 ap_process_http_connection (1d50b8, 1d4fe0, 1d4fe0, 4, a6868, 12c108) + f4 00065cac ap_run_process_connection (1d50b8, 1d4fe0, 1d4fe0, 4, 1d3018, 1d8fb8) + 3c 00058c34 child_main (1d3038, 1, a5800, a6c00, 1d8fb8, 4e2e) + 3b0 00058d8c make_child (58400, 4, 0, 10, feea1360, 1d2b7c) + b4 00058ea0 startup_children (5, 2, 5, a5800, a, 6) + 6c 00059668 ap_mpm_run (a5800, ede40, 0, a6800, a5800, a5800) + 5a4 0005f548 main (b1d50, b6bd8, ffbffcac, a6d60, a5c00, a5c00) + 610 00026990 _start (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0) + 5c Mvh Kjell Grindalen -----Opprinnelig melding----- Fra: Joshua Slive [mailto:jslive@xxxxxxxxx] Sendt: 22. november 2005 16:19 Til: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Emne: Re: [users@httpd] High cpu load on apache On 11/22/05, Kjell Grindalen <kjell.grindalen@xxxxxx> wrote: > I am runninng apache-2.0.55 on a Solaris 9 SPARC server. > I use the server a a frontend for my websphere 5.1 server My configure > looks like this > > ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache_prod --with-mpm=prefork > --enable-info --enable-so --enable-rewrite --enable-proxy > --enable-static-rotatelogs And what modules are dynamically loaded? > > My problem is that after a while, some requests makes one or sometimes > more, of my httpd servers hit the roof cpu-wise. > And it stays there til I kille the process. > A truss on the process only gives what you can see down below. Much more useful would be to attach to the process with a debugger to see what it is really doing. Some info is at: http://httpd.apache.org/dev/debugging.html#backtrace 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 This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, delete this e-mail and destroy any copies. Any dissemination or use of this information by a person other than the intended recipient is unauthorized and may be illegal. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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