Thank you for your help Jeff. I will investigate this a little more, but I don't think I will compile my own apache binary for this issue. Anyway I will tell the user to stop his chat thing.
Again, thanks a lot. Kind regards, Timo Am Samstag, 28. Februar 2004 20:56 schrieb Jeff S Wheeler: > It's a shame the debug symbols aren't available. If this happens on a > routine basis, I would definately suggest rebuilding apache and all its > modules with debugging symbols left in. > > Barring that, though, what your apache processes are doing is trying to > read that file, /home/jebu0001/homepage/jens/chat/php_chat_log, over > and over again, most likely in a `tail -f` nature, but no new data is > appearing. Without question, if you were to fire up strace again, and > append a few bytes to that file, they would show up in your strace > output as bytes being read. > > Unfortunately apache does not have any .php files or similar still > open, so it may be difficult to identify exactly what script the > culprit is. In any case, I would contact that user and tell them that > PHP script is causing you grief, and have them stop running it. > > PHP is the single biggest cause of shared server problems at my > company. I wish the PHP CGI stuff worked right, as if it did, we would > opt to use that instead of the Apache PHP module. It may be slower, > but at least that would limit what users can fuck up with third-party > PHP scripts. :( > > I hope this helps! > > -- > Jeff S Wheeler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
