Hi Peter, On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 22:42 +0200, Peter Halicky wrote: > The problem is this: about once a day, apache processes cause the > system load to go very high (today it was ~30). ... > I configured a mod_status URL which I am monitoring, to see what is > making apache so busy. Unfortunately, when this happens, apache is so > busy that it doesn't respond to these requests... [self promotion] We've developed a command line tool to help sysadmins get this information during high load. The tool is free software. It's called "FableTech Server Status for Apache" and is available for download here: http://fabletech.com/ftss [/self promotion] Best regards, Morten -- Morten Shearman Kirkegaard <moki@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