Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 13:49:20 -1000 From: "Peter Stubbs" <peters@staidan.qld.edu.au> To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: cern httpd hanging about Message-ID: <94B1B2D2193@aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au>
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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? Eeek! I've just run out of swap. Freebsd does a nice job of killing processes when it runs out, but not the ones that are causing the problem, just the ones that are asking for memory. TIA, Peter Peter Stubbs, St Aidan's AGS. ph +61-07-3379-9911, fax +61-07-3379-9432
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