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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.lava.net!news-w.ans.net!newsfeeds.ans.net!philabs!blanket.mitre.org!news.mathworks.com!worldnet.att.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!disgorge.news.demon.net!demon!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!insnet.net!backpost.satin.net!eros.clara.net!news From: steve@clara.net (Steve Rawlinson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Unexplained CPU usage on Apache httpd Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 16:12:31 GMT Message-ID: <33734b1f.105758849@news.clara.net> References: <33731156.1E6F@chesapeake.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: achilles.clara.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/32.230 Lines: 24 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6847 support@chesapeake.net wrote: >For the past several nights our Apache web server has unexplainably >frozen (almost) due to an extremely high CPU percentage. Using the TOP >caommand I can see that it is using 98% CPU and not accepting and any >requests from inside our network or out. > >The only way to fix it is to SIGHUP the httpd daemon. That seems to >work until the next time. I had the same problem which suddenly appeared and then suddenly dissappeared (running apache 1.2b7). I still dont know what caused it but it looked like an infinite loop bug - the process took as much cpu as it could get its hands on and sometimes there were more than one doing it. steve ------ Steve Rawlinson ClaraNet Ltd steve@clara.net 0171 647 1000