From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Mar 26 09:56:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA03440 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 09:56:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from digital.netvoyage.net (root@digital.netvoyage.net [205.162.154.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA03434 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 09:56:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (bogawa@localhost) by digital.netvoyage.net (8.6.13/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA10303; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 09:56:08 -0800 Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 09:56:07 -0800 (PST) From: Bryan Ogawa at Work To: Peter Stubbs cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cern httpd hanging about In-Reply-To: <94B1B2D2193@aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 26 Mar 1996, Peter Stubbs wrote: > 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 [...] I think this is NOT your problem, but when running NCSA or Apache in standalone mode it forks to meet demand, and the children don't go away. If I recall correctly, you had been running out of inetd, right? bryan Bryan K. Ogawa Questions or Problems with NetVoyage? help@netvoyage.net Check out the NetVoyage HelpWeb at..