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[milkweed]

Help!

I am running an 1800 AMD with 512 memory, running Apache and Cpanel.

In the last couple of weeks things have gone haywire! Our server is showing mass amounts of HTTPS usage. Our message boards were killing things too. But I have since shut down the boards, and removed some CGI scripts. Yet with our traffic cut in half we are still showing CPU usage of 1.00 to 5.00!!!!!!

I will admit i am not a server guy. I do mostly HTML, graphics, photography.....you get the point. So I am lost. Things were fine, and now that half the server is shut down things should be fine again! But NOOOO uh uh, no such luck. Anyone willing to lend a hand??????

Maybe help a feller out?

Ray
IM= milkweed73
ray@purebredpuppy.com

[Andrew]

drop me an email at admin@lightningservers.net and I'll help ya out.

[pyoor]

I recommend you look into top and see what is eating things up. It may be that your httpd got a little bit screwed up and just needs to be restarted. You can ps aux and see what is eating up a lot of cpu/memory also and kill -9 its PID. To restart httpd do the following... cd /etc/rc.d/init.d then httpd restart Hopefully that will restore some order...

[2host.com]

I agree. Check your process usage, logs, etc. See what the cause is and then go from there. Looking into solutions to limit the resources for web sites is not a bad idea in the meantime. I believe Cpanel allows you to enable SuEXEC, and that will at least allow you to limit the resources of CGI scripts (provided you add the proper directives with reasonable limits).