On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 16:49 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > Bas Bosman wrote: > > Hello I have a really strange problem which I can’t trace. > > > > After my fedora core 2 server has been running for a while the load goes > > up above 1.XX without a clear reason. > > > > When I run the TOP command I get this: > > > > > > > > Tasks: 179 total, 3 running, 144 sleeping, 0 stopped, 32 zombie > > > > Cpu(s): 83.6% us, 15.8% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.7% hi, 0.0% si > > > > Mem: 256024k total, 252912k used, 3112k free, 43184k buffers > > > > Swap: 1044216k total, 286548k used, 757668k free, 14916k cached > > > > > > > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > > > > 1574 apache 25 0 8588 3360 1880 R 88.5 1.3 903:27.45 perl > > > > > > > > So I guess 32 zombies is a bit much;) > > > > > > > > Anyone has any idea how I can trace this problem? > > Do an lsof or gdb on the zombies and see what parent they were spawned > off of. Given that the perl process is running as user "apache", it looks like a CGI or mod-perl script on the webserver is the problem. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
