Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:23:30 +0200 From: Barry Steyn <barry@redbutton.co.za> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Sluggish Apache Server Message-ID: <4C080F42.7080006@redbutton.co.za>
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Hi guys,
We're having a serious problem here with our live server, it's very
sluggish all of a sudden. The problem is that Apache is *really* slow
responding to https requests but still fairly quick on http. We've
checked and ruled out all of the following:
* CPU usage is normal and so is memory usage
* All other system daemons seem to be running just fine
* smartctl -a on both our disks (gmirror RAID 1) says health test
PASSED, gmirror status fine, smartd running for a week now with
nothing in the logs
* nothing strange in the apache access or error logs
* restarted apache, stopped jboss, upgraded apache to latest patch
level, even soft rebooted the box but to no avail
* nobody has done any upgrades, code changes, physical changes or
anything else to the box before the problem first manifested itself
* hosting problems - this problem even occurs when you do a wget on
the same box with https://localhost/... , in fact then it doesn't
even get to the SSL handshake as it doesn't get to complain about
the certificate mismatch
The weird thing is that the first time this happened a week ago, there
was only jboss/seam (which runs behind apache via mod_proxy_ajp) that
had an issue with sluggishness, all other https pages worked just fine.
Our tech time was desperate when nobody senior was available and decided
to hard reboot (power off and on again) the box after which it acted
really strangely (with disk errors in the logs, other system daemons
dying randomly) but eventually came right. A week later, sometime this
afternoon, the problems reoccurred but this time they are chronic,
nothing we do seems to help.
So, I keep thinking it must be a hardware problem. Not disk (or maybe it
is?), then perhaps faulty RAM? I always thought faulty RAM results in
nasty kernel panics, segfaults and other obvious symptoms but not a
sluggishness in one particular daemon...
Any ideas?
--
Barry
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