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Date:      Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:57:07 +0100
From:      Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: htpd going wild
Message-ID:  <4F425F43.1060202@my.gd>
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On 2/20/12 3:30 PM, n dhert wrote:
> FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE, all sucerity patches applied, all ports updated to the
> latest version (every week)
> 
> In the last 6 months I have experienced 3 or 4 times the httpd deamon
> (apache-2 latest version) going 'wild',
> that is: an ever increasing number of httpd processes is being launched.
> In a top (shows default the 18 most consuming processes), after a short
> time all the 18 top processes are httpd
> It shows a load of 30, 40, and ever increasing
> 

Next time this happens, get an apache2ctl fullstatus

This should show the top current queries.

Obviously, there's one (or a handful) that block the others, possibly DB
related stuff.



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