Thanks for the suggestion, but unfortunately I've tried that - truss in this case is attaching post whatever it's blocking on (so I just see it sleeping), and I haven't yet waited out the problem to see what happens when/if whatever's blocking times out. Any other ideas? On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Scott Gifford <sgifford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 1:02 PM, David Fallon <davef.box@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [ ... ] >> >> Any suggestions on a solution, or how I might get more info out of >> apache as to what it's doing while everyone's in the read state? > > I would try using strace (or ktrace or truss depending on your OS) on the > processes to see what they are doing. Between that and lsof you should be > able to tell what the process is blocked reading. > Hope this is helpful, > ----Scott. > -- Dave Fallon --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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