Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 17:04:53 -0600 (CST) From: Kevin Day <toasty@home.dragondata.com> To: dev@wopr.inetu.net (Dev) Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Runaway web server. Message-ID: <199803112304.RAA18688@home.dragondata.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980311174734.6707A-100000@wopr.inetu.net> from Dev at "Mar 11, 98 05:52:13 pm"
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> > We have a freebsd 2.2.5 server w/96 megs of ram > running 13 instances of apache. (each spawning > about 5-10 children). > > it seems something triggers _all_ of the servers > to become in the run state. about 4 or 5 children > seem to be using about 8 mb of ram. it is very > hard to actually kill the processes. (not just > from lag, but the process not dying after being > sent a kill signal). > > when trying to kill the session leader it does not > seem to die. > > The servers get stuck in a "waiting for reply" > state and never seem to respond. This server has > been up for over 40 days running fine. > > We have finally rebooted the machine, and after > about four hours it happened again. > > Anyone have any suggestions? > Is this a somewhat old version of apache? If so, someone's exploiting a bug... adding a ton of /'s in a URL will cause apache to come to a crawl... Kevin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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