On Monday 07 August 2006 11:05, Joshua Slive wrote: >That is clearly a programming error either in php or pcre. You might >want to try php forums or the php bug database to see if you can find >the solution. Thank you for taking the time to read my message and post a response. I'll check the PHP forums and mailing lists. >This problem seems unrelated to the first. It does seem unusual to >have all those processes in the closing phase. When you look at the >full server-status output, do many of the lines comes from the same >IP? This would be an indication of a (deliberate or accidental) >denial of service attack. Otherwise, you could look at commonality >between the types of requests they are processing. Roughly half of the connections were from IPs that had less than 5 connections open (most had just 1). I would think those are normal users. The rest of the connections were taken up by half a dozen IPs with this number of connections open each: 5, 5, 8, 9, 12, 24. Needing 24 connections seems suspicious to me. But those connections were used to grab images that make up the design of the web site. Perhaps it is a user with a buggy web browser? Is there a way to tell Apache not to leave connections in the closing state for so long, and just to hurry up and close them? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dan Ramaley Dial Center 118, Drake University Network Programmer/Analyst 2407 Carpenter Ave +1 515 271-4540 Des Moines IA 50311 USA --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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