On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 10:25:39PM -0800, Aaron Matteson wrote: > So about 40 ppl access this server, and everything was cool for about > a week since it was installed, cept today we had load avg's of 1 - > 2.5, and httpd processes (the ps shows about 13 of them) had about 15 > megs of RAM usage each, and about 30-50% process usage as well.. up to > 4 active at the same time with this usage. For the process ID of one of these processes using lots of CPU time, run: # strace -p <pid> as root to see what it is doing. Also you can try enabling the /server-status/ page in httpd.conf, then load that and see if there are particular requests which cause the httpd children to use lots of CPU. Regads, joe
