Hi there. Not overly farmiliar with Apache on any platform, but would check Apache's logfiles for an indication perhaps. Any reason that there are three(3) instances of 'apache2' running ? Cheers, Cameron -----Original Message----- From: Samuel Vogel [mailto:samy-delux@xxxxxx] Sent: Saturday, 25 August 2007 20:35 To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Apache taking up all CPU Time (P.S. Sorry, something went wrong with the formating of my last mail!) I'm running apache with about 4.000 vHosts on a DualCore 2,6 Opteron with 4GB of memory. I'm wondering why Apache takes up all my CPU time: top - 12:30:56 up 3 days, 20:42, 1 user, load average: 17.70, 18.06, 17.96 Tasks: 322 total, 22 running, 298 sleeping, 0 stopped, 2 zombie Cpu(s): 98.2%us, 1.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.8%si, 0.0%st Mem: 4155428k total, 3934212k used, 221216k free, 30188k buffers Swap: 2104496k total, 96916k used, 2007580k free, 2561980k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 11075 www-data 25 0 99.8m 64m 4176 R 78 1.6 513:21.42 apache2 10914 www-data 25 0 99m 65m 4768 R 53 1.6 515:46.01 apache2 11055 www-data 25 0 99.9m 65m 4480 R 47 1.6 508:05.30 apache2 How can I debug where the problem lies? I'd be very grateful for any help! I'm having apache reload it's config files every 15 minutes and the config file is about 4MB in size! Regards, Samy --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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