On 30/12/03 19:04 +0530, Goutam Baul wrote: > Hello Everybody, > > I am having a Xeon server with 512MB of RAM running RH8.0. This server is > running QMAIL 1.03, Apache 1.3.19 and squirrelmail 1.2.10. I am finding that Hopefully, a patched Apache.
> all the time there are more than 10 httpd processes are running and the top This is normal. See the minspareservers and maxspareservers directives in httpd.conf > command shows that the httpd process is taking more than 90% of CPU. I have For how long? What else is running via http? Turn off the themes in squirrelmail. How big are the mailboxes in question? Are you using Courier IMAP, or something else? > not done any special tuning of the software. Am I interpreting the top > output in a wrong way or do I need to fine tune apache? Where can I get the > explanation of the various output that the top command is giving? I tried to > search through google but without much fruitful result. man top is helpful. On Linux, top just reports from /proc, so reading the documentation on /proc will be useful as well. > Please help me to find the real problem. Some time the httpd service is > freezing and I have to restart the machine. So the matter is now becoming a > bit serious. The machine is supporting 540 mail boxes and most of them use > web access for the mail. This is negligible, unless you are doing something else on the system as well. Devdas Bhagat ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
