Are you running on a VPS or dedicated server? This seems like a apache configuration issue.
If you can confirm I think i can point you to some more information. Also you should see if restarting apache fixes this porblem - Adi On 8/18/10, Pete Graham <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I have a live SilverStripe site that I'm experiencing major problems > with. After the site has been running for a while it starts spawning > multiple httpd processes, some taking up huge percentages of the CPU > (these can be seen using top). The site progressively become more and > more unresponsive returning 500 errors for requests. > > At first I thought this was most likely to be an server > misconfiguration, but the apache setup seems fine. Strangely I've > noticed that running ?flush=1 on the site gets rid off the spawned > httpd processes and the servers response time returns to expected > levels. > > Does anyone have suggestions about what exactly is happening here? > This suggests to me that something is going wrong with the > Silverstripe caching process. Does flush=1 clear just the cached php > files or does it perform other tasks also? > > The site has low to medium traffic and is on fairly hefty dedicated > server so should be able to handle the load easily. > > Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. > Pete > > -- > NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug > To post, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to > [email protected] -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
