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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
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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


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Steve Rawlinson
ClaraNet Ltd
steve@clara.net
0171 647 1000