Morten K. Poulsen wrote: 'What are those httpd processes serving?' Do you mean the pages as recorded in the web logs? The same sort of stuff it serves all the time. We have only static content, nothing that keeps people interacting, nothing larger than 2 MB. The IP addresses of the connectors aren't all in one segment. It doesn't look like an attack, at least not in the access & error logs. Morten K. Poulsen wrote: 'Is Apache still responding?' Yes, but incredibly slowly. sendmail won't spawn new processes on account of the exhaustion of memory. Lots of processes, httpd and otherwise, time out. I have to try a few times to ssh in. russell bell --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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