From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 19 18:45:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA22730 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 18:45:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from seraglio.staidan.qld.edu.au (staidans.client.uq.edu.au [130.102.39.106]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA22723 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 18:45:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au (aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au [203.12.39.2]) by seraglio.staidan.qld.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id MAA13095 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 1996 12:45:13 +1000 Received: from AIDAN/SpoolDir by aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au (Mercury 1.21); 20 Mar 96 12:45:13 -1000 Received: from SpoolDir by AIDAN (Mercury 1.21); 20 Mar 96 12:44:53 -1000 From: "Peter Stubbs" Organization: St Aidan's A.G.S. To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 12:44:44 -1000 Subject: cern httpd hanging about Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.23) Message-ID: <8B9F16A39FC@aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi all, I'm having a problem with CERN http on my web server. Every so often I check the swap use and find that it's too high, about 40% when 15-30% is normal for 15-20 proxy web clients. ps reveals that there are old httpd's hanging about with info like 166 ?? I 1:41:02 /usr/local/libexec/httpd -r /usr.... 2604 ?? IWN 0:00.10 /usr/local/libexec/httpd -r /usr.... .. 2880 ?? IWN 0:00.11 /usr/local/libexec/httpd -r /usr.... 2901 ?? IWN 0:00.12 /usr/local/libexec/httpd -r /usr.... 12340 p1 R+ 0:00.04 ps -ax When I kill off the first httpd the rest also go, and the swap comes back to normal. When I say first I mean 2604, not 166 which is started by rc.local Does anyone know why this happens, and if I can fix it. Is there any danger of the system running out of memory from these hanging about, particularly if I go away for a month? TIA, Peter Peter Stubbs, St Aidan's AGS. ph +61-07-3379-9911, fax +61-07-3379-9432