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Message-ID: <33731BE5.6B535908@primetime.com> Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 08:43:17 -0400 From: Kurt Seel <kseel@primetime.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; BSD/OS 2.0 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Unexplained CPU usage on Apache httpd References: <33731156.1E6F@chesapeake.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: gatekeeper.primetime.com Lines: 28 Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!Sprint!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-out.microserve.net!news-in.microserve.net!news3.paonline.com!gatekeeper.primetime.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6838 What version od apache are you using? I had this problem with 1.0.5 when I had auto indexing turned on and no index.html (or whatever was configged) in a directory and a request would come in with no file name. i.e. http://www.some.server.com/directory/ But sighup wouldn't do it for me, I had to sigkill it. 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. > > We do have about 50 virtual servers running on our system, but we upped > the minservers and maxservers parameters in the httpd configuration > files to try and compensate. > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Fred Brechbiel > Sys Admin > Southern Maryland Internet > http://www.chesapeake.net