The following reply was made to PR general/2823; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Marc Slemko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Kevin Goddard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: general/2823: Httpd spawned process consume memory Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 00:55:16 -0700 (PDT) On 11 Aug 1998, Kevin Goddard wrote: > >Description: I have been running 1.3.0 for about two months without a > problem, now all of a sudden, it is acting funny. I have tried > everything I know, and am out of ideas. The httpd server runs fine, > but one or two of the httpd spawn processes will start to consume > memory. This causes the load on the server to sky rocket. I have Is there anything in the error log? Do you have any extra modules compiled in? Can you find anything in the access log that looks unusual? > some safe guards set to shut httpd when the load gets to high, and > then turn it back on when the load gets low enough, but this is > happening every 5 minutes. I have been able to confirm that it has > something to do with one virtual site on the server. I have turned > everything off (mSQLd, sendmail, perl) and still it happens. Another > guy I know showed me a latest apache exploit that had something to do > with the httpd_protocol.c file, but he applied the patch for it, and Exactly what patch is this? Are you sure it was applied correctly and you are running the new binary? > Here is a line from top that shows the problem: > 10023 nobody 8 -20 19084 11M 352 R < 0 6.8 12.6 1:46 httpd Does it continue to grow, or does it stabalize at a particular size?
