Hi Russell, On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 15:21 -0600, Russell Bell wrote: > Morten K. Poulsen wrote: 'What are those httpd processes serving?' > > Do you mean the pages as recorded in the web logs? I was thinking about which requests those processes are handling right now. AFIK Apache logs when a request has been served, so if something goes wrong before that, it will not show up in the log files. > Morten K. Poulsen wrote: 'Is Apache still responding?' > > Yes, but incredibly slowly. If the server-status page is available, could you fetch it, and see if anything unusual is going on? The scoreboard (which is displayed by the server-status page) is the place to get information about what Apache is doing, while it is doing it. > 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. Have you considered lowering the MaxClients setting? Best regards, Morten -- Morten K. Poulsen <mopo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> CTO, FableTech http://fabletech.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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