FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE, all sucerity patches applied, all ports updated to the latest version (every week)
In the last 6 months I have experienced 3 or 4 times the httpd deamon (apache-2 latest version) going 'wild', that is: an ever increasing number of httpd processes is being launched. In a top (shows default the 18 most consuming processes), after a short time all the 18 top processes are httpd It shows a load of 30, 40, and ever increasing interactive response, loggin-in, etc... gets very slow... I can only try to do # apachectl stop (which takes long to type, and get processed also :-( ) I already installed the FreeBSD port mod_limitipconn and specify in my Virtual hosts: <VirtualHost *:80> Servername mysubdom.subdom.topdom DocumentRoot "my__document__root" <IfModule mod_limitipconn.c> <Location /> MaxConnPerIP 3 # exempting images from the connection limit is often a good # idea if your web page has lots of inline images, since these # pages often generate a flurry of concurrent image requests NoIPLimit image/* </Location> </IfModule> </VirtualHost> But seems no help ... I can't figure out what can be the cause... My apache is the latest for FreeSBD, I don't think it's a bug in Apache, Is it some external websurfer/crawler that causes this huge load ?? I looked in the log files but can't find a 'smoking gun' Any one ideas how to find the cause and how to deal with it ?? _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"