From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 1 13:25: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B58237B400 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 13:24:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2AAF43E5E for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 13:24:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) id g71KOuYA024217; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 15:24:56 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 15:24:56 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: lists@brenius.com Cc: William Palfreman , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Very High HTTPD Usage (Pls help, was urgent) Message-ID: <20020801202455.GC24810@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20020801201301.V8173-100000@bell.lan.palfreman.com> <007e01c23994$2b454c20$7b01a8c0@afi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <007e01c23994$2b454c20$7b01a8c0@afi> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Aug 01), lists@brenius.com said: > We are still trying to track down the problem, but so far to temporarily > the kill the sucker, we did the following: > > -Sendmail died, because the load went over 12.##. > > -/usr/local/apache/bin/ > -./apachectl retart > > That taimed it down for the time being. > > Then another FreeBSD server, we had an httpd process hoovering around > 97% while looking at a "top". > > Did the same as above and that slowed things down to near normal. > > > As for you, are you doing anything funny with your webserver? > > Not out of the ordinary. Apache 1.3.26, PHP 4.2.1, mySQL > 3.23.51...(or close) My bet is on an inefficient php script, run inside httpd via mod_php. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message