To all,
I have a server that is having some problems with some
"apache" services. The machine appears to have a runaway process that takes
up just over 20% of the CPU, but this is enough to stop all mail and to a
certain extent network as well.
The problem for me is this machine is at a remote site. When this process
runs away, I cannot connect to the network remotely, to resolve the issue, I
need to get someone internally to log on to the server itself and kill the
process.
When I say "Apache", that is the user listed against the process, so it must
be some form of web service. The command at fault is either "std" or "s",
although I have seen a "perl" command giving issues as well, but not to the
same effect.
Does anyone have any idea what may be causing this? Or what I can do to
rectify?
Cheers
Mike Canty
