----- "Dave Barton" <dave.barton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > We've recently had a pretty large increase in the usage of one of our > Wordpress-powered sites. I'm seeing some very odd behaviour and I'm at Which version of WP? Did you make -- recently -- any changes? Upgrade, install new plugins? Did you traffic spontaneously increase? > a loss as to how to investigate it further. Some of the apache > processes > are spawning children with broken CPU usage and time stats (as shown > by > ps auxf). I think it might be best just to show some examples; Given the line-breaks it's *really* hard to read what you mean :-/ [Snip] > The apache server-status page shows these up as processing requests > correctly (state K, C or R) but with improbably high values in the > CPU column. Are you running this in a Zone/Container/Jail/Vz/blah > If anyone has any ideas where I can start looking (or can just tell > me > how to fix it!) it would be greatly appreciated. > > Cheers > -- > Dave Barton > Senior Systems Administrator > Comodo CA Ltd i -- Igor GaliÄ Tel: +43 (0) 664 886 22 883 Mail: i.galic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx URL: http://brainsware.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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