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cgisupp

11-22-2001, 07:48 PM

I was just wondering if anybody can assist with a
problem I am having with one of my RAQ2's . There seems to be a
httpd process that is being spawned and slowly consumes all
available CPU resources. I have replaced the httpd daemon as well
as the PHP binary, they were my first suspects, however the
problem persists. People have suggested to me that it may be a
rogue script but I haven't been able to track it down. I would
appreciate any advice .
Also attempting to kill the process isn't fruitful, nor is
attempting to restart the httpd binary, only a reboot appears to
solve the problem for a period of a few hours.

Chicken

11-23-2001, 04:05 AM

Well, can you tell if something in top shows a problem at the time? I'm not the best at troubleshooting this type of thing, though I don't think you've posted enough info for anyone to solve your problem.

cgisupp

11-23-2001, 04:19 AM

Hi Chicken,
I have looked at top and cannot find anythin else that may be the cause, if I had extra info to show you I would have posted it but I am really at a loss to know what the problem might be.. I quite literally have nothing to go on.. All I know is that in top their is a httpd daemon process that has been running for hours that is using 96% of CPU resources. I cannot kill this process nor can I restart Apache to remove it. A complete reboot solves the problem for a few hours before it reappears.

I am totally mystified as to what is causing it..

Chicken

11-23-2001, 05:11 AM

Well, I'm moving this to the tech issues forum to see if someone else can help you, as it seems like it might be a general question, less a RaQ one.

windchill

11-23-2001, 05:22 AM

Hi

I'm not sure what the problem is, but it might also be the admin server of your RaQ having a problem. As far as I
can remember this is a second apache server running on port 81.
I am not sure again, but I think when you stop your webserver via /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd stop, it doesnt stop the
admin server.

hth
Marc

Chicken

11-23-2001, 04:50 PM

This is correct, it won't stop the admin server.

cgisupp

11-23-2001, 06:15 PM

Thanks for your replies, after alot of frustration I tracked it down to a defective Zend Module in PHP.. I needed to recompile the Zend module and it is fine now..