> > > >> watch out, the real fun starts right now. > > > > > > Can you tell me at what time it started? > > > > cat ~sanda/log > > first offense seems to be around 10am today. > > > > btw i dont think that just restart is the way how to solve it. > > there must be some httpd config which bound the number of httpd childern. > > Depends on the worker module in use. Are you sure it's the number > of connections that suddenly raises or is it child that somehow consumes > a lot of the aviable resources?
i'm not sure about anything, because i dont have read access to aussie logs. for the load around 20 before 15 mins (ie aussie unusable) there was: PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND 30277 0.0 1.1 22208 2912 ? Ss Feb07 0:06 /usr/sbin/httpd 7526 0.8 3.1 34120 8176 ? S 16:53 0:02 /usr/sbin/httpd 7572 1.4 3.4 29524 8716 ? D 16:54 0:04 /usr/sbin/httpd 7648 1.3 2.3 30180 5924 ? S 16:54 0:03 /usr/sbin/httpd 7688 4.2 5.9 38052 15268 ? S 16:55 0:09 /usr/sbin/httpd 7712 0.9 2.3 29740 6120 ? D 16:55 0:01 /usr/sbin/httpd 7721 1.1 2.7 29044 6992 ? S 16:56 0:01 /usr/sbin/httpd 7722 0.6 2.0 29272 5204 ? D 16:56 0:01 /usr/sbin/httpd 7740 0.7 1.8 29028 4760 ? S 16:56 0:01 /usr/sbin/httpd 7754 0.9 5.2 30916 13384 ? S 16:56 0:01 /usr/sbin/httpd 7757 1.7 3.4 33368 8848 ? S 16:57 0:01 /usr/sbin/httpd 7758 2.0 4.1 33324 10660 ? S 16:57 0:02 /usr/sbin/httpd 7767 1.2 2.7 29316 6924 ? S 16:57 0:01 /usr/sbin/httpd 7774 0.0 1.5 22704 4068 ? S 16:57 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd 7776 1.6 2.5 29288 6416 ? S 16:57 0:01 /usr/sbin/httpd 7793 0.0 0.9 22344 2524 ? S 16:58 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd 7796 0.0 1.2 22344 3276 ? D 16:58 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd for the load 1.5 now there is: 30277 0.0 1.1 22208 2920 ? Ss Feb07 0:06 /usr/sbin/httpd 7857 3.9 7.1 36640 18396 ? S 16:59 0:12 /usr/sbin/httpd 8095 1.7 3.4 29164 8904 ? S 17:04 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd 8096 2.2 3.3 28796 8504 ? S 17:04 0:01 /usr/sbin/httpd (dont take the load numbers too precisely, ) pavel