Hi Jake,

However when I check top I can see some zombified httpd processes whenever I 
use the web gui, they go away after I close my session, but come back as soon 
as I sign back in.

You sure they are zombified?  What are you using 'zombified' to mean here?

You can check for zombified processes with ps aux.  Are those httpd processes 
showing status as Z?

 I don’t even begin to pretend that I understand the voodoo you guys call “The 
Web� … HTML along with algebra is the language of the devil.

Probably worth learning something about it then, apparently this world wide web 
thing could get pretty big ;)

In my experience slowness in the GUI tends to be database related.  I seem to 
recall there is a section in the admin guide that deals with tuning MySQL for 
better performance with PF.

Do you have a lot of nodes (either registered or unregistered) in your 
database?  I had about 9000 unreg in mine and that made it very slow indeed, so 
I cleared all the unregistered nodes out of the database (you have to do this 
using SQL, it can't be done from the GUI).  That fixed my issue right away.

Mark


On 15 Aug 2012, at 22:55, "Sallee, Stephen (Jake)" 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

We are moving into full production without PF server and starting to see some 
slow response times in our web admin gui.

The server resources don’t seem to be too taxed, my memory is only 50% utilized 
and my disk is only 10%, and cpu is 0.4 0.3 0.3…

However when I check top I can see some zombified httpd processes whenever I 
use the web gui, they go away after I close my session, but come back as soon 
as I sign back in.

While Linux and servers are my playground, I don’t even begin to pretend that I 
understand the voodoo you guys call “The Web� … HTML along with algebra is the 
language of the devil.

How can I go about determining the cause of these defunct processes and also 
finding out IF they are the cause of my slower response times in the gui?   … 
or have I been inadvertently exposed to some type of controlled substance…

Jake Sallee
Godfather of Bandwidth
System Engineer
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
900 College St.
Belton TX. 76513
Fone: 254-295-4658
Phax: 254-295-4221
HTTP://WWW.UMHB.EDU

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