From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Mar 25 19:52:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA07576 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 19:52:38 -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 TAA07465 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 19:51:29 -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 NAA26755 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 13:49:57 +1000 Received: from AIDAN/SpoolDir by aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au (Mercury 1.21); 26 Mar 96 13:50:19 -1000 Received: from SpoolDir by AIDAN (Mercury 1.21); 26 Mar 96 13:49:27 -1000 From: "Peter Stubbs" Organization: St Aidan's A.G.S. To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 13:49:20 -1000 Subject: cern httpd hanging about Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.23) Message-ID: <94B1B2D2193@aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au> Sender: owner-isp@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? 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