On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Dan Bunyard <danodemano@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have never done a backtrace, can you please point me in the right > direction for that? gdb /path/to/httpd PID ... (gdb) where (backtrace displayed here) (gdb) quit run gdb as root if you start httpd as root > I didn't check CPU usage at the time, only load average which was around 100 > (normally it's between 0.02 and 0.5 over 1 minute). top might give a good clue > I was able to log in but it was VERY slow. As I watched the load average it > was continuing to climb just before I killed Apache. It did not terminate > gracefully either, the error_log showed this: ... > [Mon Jan 25 12:50:49 2010] [warn] child process 23437 still did not exit, > sending a SIGTERM > [Mon Jan 25 12:50:49 2010] [warn] child process 23441 still did not exit, > sending a SIGTERM > [Mon Jan 25 12:50:49 2010] [warn] child process 23445 still did not exit, > sending a SIGTERM > [Mon Jan 25 12:50:49 2010] [warn] child process 23451 still did not exit, > sending a SIGTERM > [Mon Jan 25 12:50:49 2010] [warn] child process 23453 still did not exit, > sending a SIGTERM > [Mon Jan 25 12:50:49 2010] [warn] child process 28350 still did not exit, > sending a SIGTERM > [Mon Jan 25 12:50:49 2010] [warn] child process 28355 still did not exit, > sending a SIGTERM > [Mon Jan 25 12:50:49 2010] [warn] child process 26939 still did not exit, > sending a SIGTERM > [Mon Jan 25 12:50:51 2010] [warn] child process 23437 still did not exit, > sending a SIGTERM > [Mon Jan 25 12:50:51 2010] [warn] child process 23441 still did not exit, > sending a SIGTERM > [Mon Jan 25 12:50:51 2010] [warn] child process 23445 still did not exit, > sending a SIGTERM > [Mon Jan 25 12:50:51 2010] [warn] child process 23451 still did not exit, > sending a SIGTERM > [Mon Jan 25 12:50:51 2010] [warn] child process 23453 still did not exit, > sending a SIGTERM > [Mon Jan 25 12:50:51 2010] [warn] child process 28350 still did not exit, > sending a SIGTERM > [Mon Jan 25 12:50:51 2010] [warn] child process 28355 still did not exit, > sending a SIGTERM > [Mon Jan 25 12:50:51 2010] [warn] child process 26939 still did not exit, > sending a SIGTERM > [Mon Jan 25 12:50:53 2010] [warn] child process 23437 still did not exit, > sending a SIGTERM > [Mon Jan 25 12:50:53 2010] [warn] child process 23441 still did not exit, > sending a SIGTERM > [Mon Jan 25 12:50:53 2010] [warn] child process 23445 still did not exit, > sending a SIGTERM > [Mon Jan 25 12:50:53 2010] [warn] child process 23451 still did not exit, > sending a SIGTERM > [Mon Jan 25 12:50:53 2010] [warn] child process 23453 still did not exit, > sending a SIGTERM > [Mon Jan 25 12:50:53 2010] [warn] child process 28350 still did not exit, > sending a SIGTERM > [Mon Jan 25 12:50:53 2010] [warn] child process 28355 still did not exit, > sending a SIGTERM > [Mon Jan 25 12:50:53 2010] [warn] child process 26939 still did not exit, > sending a SIGTERM > [Mon Jan 25 12:50:55 2010] [error] child process 23437 still did not exit, > sending a SIGKILL > [Mon Jan 25 12:50:55 2010] [error] child process 23441 still did not exit, > sending a SIGKILL > [Mon Jan 25 12:50:55 2010] [error] child process 23445 still did not exit, > sending a SIGKILL > [Mon Jan 25 12:50:55 2010] [error] child process 23451 still did not exit, > sending a SIGKILL > [Mon Jan 25 12:50:55 2010] [error] child process 23453 still did not exit, > sending a SIGKILL > [Mon Jan 25 12:50:55 2010] [error] child process 28350 still did not exit, > sending a SIGKILL > [Mon Jan 25 12:50:55 2010] [error] child process 28355 still did not exit, > sending a SIGKILL > [Mon Jan 25 12:50:55 2010] [error] child process 26939 still did not exit, > sending a SIGKILL > [Mon Jan 25 12:50:56 2010] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down hmmm.... far more "[warn] ... sending a SIGTERM" than "[error] ... sending a SIGKILL"... I guess that means the processes in interruptible code and system performance is degraded enough that it takes a long time for the processes to get cleaned up. (I doubt there's anything to learn there.) > Is there a way to turn on more logging (debug logs) or a better way to trace > what it doing at that time? no httpd debug logs would help AFAIK; no clue here what PHP offers you could pick one of the high CPU processes and strace it to see which, if any, system calls are being issued during that time --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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