To use server-status you will need to add: <Location /server-status> SetHandler server-status </Location>
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Morten K. Poulsen <m...@fabletech.com>wrote: > Hi Russell, > > On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 16:45 -0600, Russell Bell wrote: > > I run a crontab job that collects the 'top' output every 5 minutes. > > Twice in the last 6 months httpd has spawned as many clients > > as it can, consuming all memory. For months it uses 14-20 clients > > then, suddenly, explodes to creating 50 to 100 - whatever the > > value of MaxClients. The logs that record accesses don't show > > an increase in accesses or errors - indeed they show a decrease. > > I see no unusual behavior in any logs > > What are those httpd processes serving? > > Is Apache still responding? > > > Restarting stops the explosion of clients and all returns to as it was. > > The first time it happened I searched for causes, marked it as a > > quirk, but it happened again yesterday. > > If Apache is still responding, you can get an overview of this by > requesting the server-status page (if you have mod_status enabled): > > lynx http://127.0.0.1/server-status > > If Apache is not responding, I've written a tool which might help you > find out what is going on: > > http://fabletech.com/ftasv > > This tool can easily be run from cron to log activity at regular > intervals. > > Best regards, > Morten > > -- > Morten K. Poulsen <m...@fabletech.com> > CTO, FableTech > http://fabletech.com/ > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > >
