On 01/12/2011 03:16 PM, Mike Canty wrote:
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
From what you've said, it sounds a little like a DoS attack. It sounds
as though the problem process is saturating the network.
What sort of firewall, internal to QMT as well as external, is involved?
--
-Eric 'shubes'
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