Re: Runaway Apache Process

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I can't imagine that RAM is the problem, nor the CPU. It's a dual core
machine with 5GB of RAM that gets MAYBE a few hundred unique hits a month
between ALL the web sites on it. It did this once before I even had most of
the web sites on it, it only had one or two on it the first time it happened
and was getting maybe a dozen hits a month.
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Dan

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This is not a problem that requires infinite wisdom, Benj. This is a problem
that requires enough neural organization to qualify as a vertebrate,
apparently a stretch for some folks these days.
~Cecil Adams.


On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 20:42, Reese wrote:

> On 26-Jan-10 20:28, Dan Bunyard wrote:
>
>> This has happened twice now and it's a little bit concerning to me. I have
>> a
>> Fedora 12 server with 5GB of RAM that I use to host a few small web sites
>> of
>> mine. As I mentioned, this happened once before. I tried to load one of my
>> web sites today and it took FOREVER (as in the 10s of minutes) to load. I
>> SSHed into the box and found the load average around 100 (dual core
>> machine). Since this was the second time it had happened, I knew that it
>> was
>> Apache causing it. So I restarted the Apache service and everything
>> returned
>> to normal. A look in the error_log showed this error:
>>
>> server reached MaxClients setting, consider raising the MaxClients setting
>>
>> I suspect that this is the reason that Apache was eating up all my system
>> resources but I don't have any idea how to fix it.
>>
>> I do use PHP and MySQL fairly heavily. All the sites on the server use PHP
>> in some form and most of the use MySQL. Could this be part of the problem?
>> I
>> attached a copy of my httpd.conf file to this message if that will help
>> (It's also inserted into this email at the very bottom).
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated!!!
>>
>
> Off-the-cuff guesses:
>
> - Install more RAM
> - Install more CPU
> - Install more CPU and more RAM
> - limit MaxClients to 75 or 50
>
> If you are getting that much traffic, grow the server to accommodate
> it or choke it so that you can run FTP in the manner you like.
>
> Reese
>
>
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Re: Runaway Apache Process

On 26-Jan-10 21:05, Dan Bunyard wrote:
> I can't imagine that RAM is the problem, nor the CPU. It's a dual core
> machine with 5GB of RAM that gets MAYBE a few hundred unique hits a month

How many non-unique hits?

We had a problem once, ended up losing a host over it. It turned out
to be a malicious or poorly-programmed bot that kept hammering
relentlessly - services from that host were sweet but they couldn't
be bothered and dumped our account rather than do some due diligence
and protect themselves.

What shows up in your logs?

> between ALL the web sites on it. It did this once before I even had most of
> the web sites on it, it only had one or two on it the first time it happened
> and was getting maybe a dozen hits a month.
> --
> Dan
>
> http://www.moonlightrpg.com
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/danbunyard
> http://www.danodemano.com
> http://www.dansrandomness.com
> http://www.danandshelley.com


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