Re: High load, lots of free memory and processes in devfs state

2008-06-16 Thread Stut
Does anybody have any ideas about this problem? So far today I've tried moving memcache off this machine, played with a few settings in httpd.conf but nothing seems to make a difference. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm rapidly losing what's left of my hair!! -Stut On 15 Jun

Re: High load, lots of free memory and processes in devfs state

2008-06-16 Thread Oliver Fromme
Stut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having a serious problem with one of my FreeBSD servers. It runs FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, Apache 2.2.8 and PHP 5.2.1. I've checked the hardware and it's all OK. There's approximately 400 Apache processes running and a 2GB memcached instance. Up

Re: High load, lots of free memory and processes in devfs state

2008-06-16 Thread Stut
On 16 Jun 2008, at 18:48, Oliver Fromme wrote: Stut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having a serious problem with one of my FreeBSD servers. It runs FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, Apache 2.2.8 and PHP 5.2.1. I've checked the hardware and it's all OK. There's approximately 400 Apache processes running and a

Re: High load, lots of free memory and processes in devfs state

2008-06-16 Thread Patrick C
Is the MySQL daemon still running on that box? I see a mysqldump but no mysqld. If it is, try doing a shutdown and see if the load decreases. Sounds odd, but I have been having similar issues with MySQL. -Patrick 2008/6/16 Stut [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 16 Jun 2008, at 18:48, Oliver Fromme wrote:

Re: High load, lots of free memory and processes in devfs state

2008-06-16 Thread Stut
On 16 Jun 2008, at 22:20, Patrick C wrote: Is the MySQL daemon still running on that box? I see a mysqldump but no mysqld. If it is, try doing a shutdown and see if the load decreases. Sounds odd, but I have been having similar issues with MySQL. It's not, no. It used to but it doesn't run

High load, lots of free memory and processes in devfs state

2008-06-15 Thread Stut
Hi, I'm having a serious problem with one of my FreeBSD servers. It runs FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, Apache 2.2.8 and PHP 5.2.1. I've checked the hardware and it's all OK. There's approximately 400 Apache processes running and a 2GB memcached instance. Up until last weekend this server was